woot lightning fast 20mhz processor... i should put one of those in my gaming computer, then itd run fear like there was no tommrow

How good of a computer could you get today for that price?

How much extra would the monitor have been back then?

You'd have to overclock it to 30 MHz first, if you could even do that.

Whats even worse is that price doesn't include the monitor and mouse.

Sad thing is . . . my grade school had a bunch of these donated when i was in 7th grade. The computer lady thought it was the coolest thing ever. I rememer her wanting me to set a network using the one With the 33DX processor as a server.

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[1] Area-51® ALX

Processor: Intel® Pentium® Processor Extreme Edition 840 w/ HT 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Power Supply: Alienware® Approved 650 Watt ATX 2.0 Power Supply with Active PFC
Chassis: Alienware® ALX Full-Tower Case - Saucer Silver
Chassis Upgrades: Alienware® Acoustic Dampening with AlienIce™ 2.0 Video Cooling
Motherboard: Alienware® nForce™4 SLI™ Intel Edition Chipset Motherboard PCI Express SLI
Graphics Processor: Dual 256MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7800 GTX KO - SLI Enabled
Video Optimizer: AlienAdrenaline: Video Performance Optimizer
Memory: 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 x 1024MB
System Drive: Extreme Performance (RAID 0) - 1TB (500GB x 2) Serial ATA-II 3Gb 7,200 RPM w/32MB Cache
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive w/LightScribe Technology
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi® XtremeMusic High Definition 7.1 Surround Sound
Thermal Management System: Alienware® ALX Active Liquid Cooling System
Performance-Enhancement: Alienware® ALX Graphics Performance-Enhancement
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 323T 32" LCD Display - Black
Keyboard & Mouse: Microsoft® Multimedia Keyboard & Mouse - Saucer Silver
Speakers: Klipsch ProMedia™ Ultra 5.1 500-Watt Speakers
Power Protection: Tripp Lite LC1200

I went to Alienware b/c it's the one place I know I can get a computer up to that price just using the customize pages, don't give me crap for it

bad thing is even with that computer if you get a real monitor not the 32 lcd it is gonna drop to about 3 grand in price

Can we give you crap about going Pentium instead?

Sure, but my P4 right now is as stable as hell, my old AMD froze once a day. But I think that was the motherboard, not the point though.

That's 4mhz faster than my 386

Not to shabby for 1989.

2.5GHz Quad-core PowerPC G5
16GB 533 DDR2 ECC SDRAM- 8x2GB
2x500GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
QUADRO FX 4500 512MB SDRAM
Primary Display Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel)
Secondary Display Apple Cinema HD Display (30" flat panel)
AirPort Extreme + Bluetooth built-in
Apple USB Modem
16x SuperDrive DL (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Fibre Channel PCI Express Card (w/ SFP-SFP cable)
Apple Wireless Keyboard & Mouse - Western Spanish
Mac OS X - U.S. English
Mac OS X Server (Unlimited-Client)
Final Cut Express HD + Motion 2 preinstalled
Accessory kit

All of this for $25,126 yes thats is $25,126 and you would able to edit the hell out of any video and also be able to play super-break-out and super-break-out II. fucking macs.

[most bored tone possible] Wow. You are so funny. I don't know how you came up with that oh so funny joke. I mean, super-breakout and super-breakout 2. you are so funny. i think you should put that in a little video or something. perhaps put it on the internet so that dumb fucks all around the world can repeat what you said on an internet forum and sound really retarded because eveyone and their dog has seen your video and knows where the quote is from. then that poor kid on the forum can be retarded and go die somewhere. [/most bored tone possible]