Customer Reviews

REFURBISHED DELL GX260 SLIM P4 1.8GHz 20GB 256MB Desktop PCs Intel

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This computer works well. Delivery was very timely, and the experience has been satisfying, generally. There are better models, but all of my experience with dell has been good. Heartily recommend this supplier. Thanks Amazon.com.

Thomas Brown

I recently picked up a slightly defective example of one of these old 2.0 GHz Dell's at a thrift store for ten bucks... just to play with. Windows XP "Home Edition" came with the machine but it hung up on boot, and my subsequent clean install of Windows XP Pro likewise failed... It turned out that there were just too many bad sectors on the nine year old, original Maxtor hard disk for Microsoft's OS to handle.

Linux worked much, much better. Still using the original thrift store hardware - including the defective 30 gig Maxtor and a paltry 256 meg of DDR RAM that came with my machine - Ubuntu 9.10 loaded perfectly on the first try and ran like a champ, with ports and networking supported automatically by the standard installation. The standard Linux diagnostics then fingered the hard drive as my source of trouble... while giving my RAM and other Optiplex components a clean bill of health.

Bottom line: This is a fine machine to run Linux on, including the very latest versions like Ubuntu 9.10. Now, after replacing the old machine's hard disk with a new but modest 160 gig drive AND bumping the original RAM up to 2 gig - both very inexpensive upgrades these days - I am still under a hundred bucks... And the performance I'm seeing is *at least* comparable to the Windows XP Pro, multi-core Dells I support at work - despite the fact that they are 7-8 years newer, have 4 gig of faster RAM and have a lot of other improvements over the Dells of the Pentium 4 era!

Give an old, cheap Dell a new life on Linux! You will be amazed.

I bought this computer for my Grandson. I doubled the memory and installed a better graphics card. He can now run all of his games much better and faster than his old Pentium 2. I was surprised at how easy it was to open and install components. The instructions and manuls are still available online. A very good investment.

I love the computer. It works great. Easy to work on, and just great customer satisfaction.

The computer was in excellent condition when it arrived, except for one problem - upon opening the carton, a dreadful odor filled the room - whether it was the packing or the computer itself, after a few days the smell was gone and the computer is now in use, working well.

This computer was a pile of trash!! A big fan was tumbling around inside of this so-called computer! Did not power on, pieces of the computer casing was broken, also.