What do you think about the Dell 2350?

What would you say to an ad like this? (I now have a Dell 4400, but I know the hard drive and probably the motherboard is getting tired, I have had it since about 2001. My Dell is a 1.8GHz and 512 mb RAM and a 80 gig HD ) Would it be more beneficial to upgrade my pc or go for this ad and buy this one? Thanks.

DELL 2350

Pentium 4 - 2.4 GHZ

1 GB RAM

55 GB Hard Drive

CD ROM

CD-R/RW

Wireless Keyboard/Mouse

Ethernet Card Ready

19" Dell Monitor

Windows XP Home

Norton Antivirus Protection thru 2/23/2008

Formatted on 11/25/2007

They want $250. for this system.

What do you think about the Dell 2350?computer

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This is not bad, the Hard Drive is small to to-days standards and to the standards of that era of computers. Check if they will be willing to install an extra Hadr Drive 120 GB. Try a little barganing.

Dell will some times do this for a sale (120Gb Hard Drives are fairly cheap.

What do you think about the Dell 2350?free spyware

Never ever upgrade an old system...just throwing money away...always buy a new one...what you would pay to upgrade it, why wouldnt you just spend that on a new one? the one you have....even if it isnt but a couple years old, is ancient! Just set it to the side, give it to the kids, sell it and get what you can for it...put the money towards that new pc, or use it as an extra computer.
Well it's certainly cheap enough. I would consider it a better bet than upgrading your old box. Indeed I fear money spent on your current box would be wasted.

There are though some caveats I'd make:

Personally I'd never recommend a Dell, with Dell like Macs you are locked into a proprietary system making sevive and upgrading problematic.

I'd more than a 55GB drive, I know it's a laptop even so by modern standards that's small.

If you dos is capable of screwing up your system quicker than a monkey - and it only runs through until Feb.

Have a good look around and see what other laptops are available at a price you can afford. Check out Computer Magazines and their website, and Consumer Org. Google 'best value laptops' might yield some useful results.