Buying a new desktop - any recommendations?

[venator]

I'm buying it for a non - techy pal who just wants Internet, MS Office and the occasional iPlayer video - no games, nothing clever.

The budget is around £300, box only.

I would have looked at Mesh, but they've just gone bust.

Any suggestions will be gratefully received!

[ChuckFickens]

http://www.morgancomp...riple-core-3gb-640gb/

Massively over specced for that they want, but it's in budget.

[venator]

Once again, Chuck comes up good!

I didn't mention, but my pal is also very mean indeed, and refurb will bring a smile to his face! Shame about Vista, but he has XP.

[VHG]

Why buy a refurb from Morgan with Vista on it when you can buy a brand new Dell with Windows 7 on it for the same money.

This Dell is £299 and has a decent CPU, 2Gb of memory, 320Gb hard drive, and Windows 7. It al;so has Windows Office Starter (Word and Excel) which the Vista box wont have.

http://configure.euro...be4b61a4582175841a3d1

[karenmac60]

Have a look at ebuyer.com - their prices are pretty decent.

[Hymie]

ChuckFickens recommendation is a refurbish item, with only 90 days warrantee.

Ebuyer is selling this machine – which has a 1 year warrantee for only a fiver more (post free).

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/251930

But both machines are well overspeced for what your pal wants.

Something like this would be more than adequate, saving around £70.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/255251

The ebuyer machines are not running Vista!!!!!!