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Dell XPS 420
I finally decided to buy a Dell XPS 420 desktop computer this weekend. Dell is running a great deal for Mother’s Day; $350 off XPS 420 systems. I’m not a mother, but who cares right? I can get the configuration that I want cheaper than I can get with my Employee Purchase Program discount mainly because I don’t have to take the 3 year warranty on the Mother’s Day deal.
This system is configured with the ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner. I really want to start recording digital/HD TV content including Premium stations with Windows Vista Media Center. With my current system I’m only able to record the analog stations and the quality leaves a lot to be desired on a 46″ LCD HD TV.
I went down to Charter Cable yesterday to talk to them about Cable Cards. They were not very helpful. Both the woman at the front counter and the technician that I eventually talked to really couldn’t answer my questions. The reason is that they haven’t hooked up that many cable cards in PCs before. They did say that I would be able to get the digital/HD and premium stations. But, I could have a problem with voltage feedback into the cable lines. After further questioning this could be an issue with any TV tuner card hooked up with a coax to the cable company.
Here’s my configuration:
- Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor Q9300 (6MB Cache,2.50GHz,1333FSB)
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium with Digital Cable Support
- 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz – 4 DIMMs
- Dell USB Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard
- 22 inch E228WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
- Radeon ATI HD 2600 XT 256MB
- 750GB – 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
- Dell Media Card Reader included in Dell Bluetooth Package
- Dell Optical USB Mouse
- Blu-ray Disc Combo (DVD+/-RW + BD-ROM)
- Integrated Sound Blaster®Audigy™ HD Software Edition
- Dell 19 in 1 Media Reader with Bluetooth
- 1Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor,24×7 Phone Support
- Single ATITV Wonder™Digital Cable Tuner with Remote
- McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 24-months
- Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1
- Included 3 GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1Yr
- No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
- No Productivity software pre-installed
- No Modem Requested
