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  • Dec. 28th, 2007 at 10:55 AM
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I have a small sitch. Lee got me a computer for Christmas and it ended up not being the one that they sent me. Well, it was almost the same, except for the video card. Instead of coming with an nVidia card, it came with an ATI Radeon X1200. This wouldn't really bother me, except that we don't really like ATI cards (as both of us have never been too impressed with them) and it was also the main reason Lee bought this particular machine.

And here's the machine as advertised (yes, it is from Home Depot - Lee thought it was a good deal!)

They've offered us maybe $150 back if we keep the current machine, which we may take as the machine does work and considering what a crappy machine I was using it's light years better, but I'm also very interested in this machine HOWEVER I have never heard of the company. It's $10 more than the machine Lee got me, and if they throw in the monitor (really, letting us keep the one we have) then we'd consider the deal done. However, we don't know what the video card is (which Lee is going to find out today). If it's even halfway decent, won't the processors and ram and such more than make up for the card? And really, does the manufacturer matter, since they're basically just assembling parts? The only reason Lee didn't get this one in the first place was because it didn't have a monitor with the deal.

Please give me advice. Please? :D

And yes, we have to stick with ordering from Home Depot now.