[cubbage]

OK, all of you ungrateful clowns should not be complaining about the PC in the gaveway, hey if you win great for you but this system already has a spot in my home.


I have a PC at home that I have XP, Vista Ultimate 64 & Unubtu installed on. I have two startup screens (Ubuntu then windows). The first I have Windows set as default, the second one set to XP as default. I have had no problems with this setup and all of the OS's run on their own hard drives. My previous PC had all 3 installed also but they shared a hard drive (750 GB Seagate) and they co-existed with no problems. So yes you can have multiple OS's on your computers and all I used the the boot loaders from Ubuntu & Vista with some editing.


It seems to me that Vista 32 is not one I want to use since I already have a 32 bit OS that is stable & runs all of my gaming software. But Vista 64 was an easy install and I had no problems getting drivers for it from the web. Now if I could only talk she who must be obeyed into letting me get another 4 GB. Well I can dream can't I.

[online2]

Sorry to be picky, but if it is a gaming system, why not a gaming keyboard? Like the Logitech G15 with the 18 macro keys (which is very useful even for non-gaming purposes!

[jonljacobi]

Actually, it's not specifically a gaming system, though it should do that quite well. B-) Personally, I would've opted for an old-school IBM model M (of which I own three for my own use).

Cheers, Jon

[LuckyJo]

Wow to cool,
i would call it the Dream PC Machine
Really nice prize to win.
I Really need a great machine like this so KQQL.
Good Luck to you all that entered to win this Beauty, and Good Luck to Me to
Thanks to PC World for having such a Great Giveaway.

[Joephus]

I just imagined myself playing Portal in the top right of the screen, writing my essay in the top left, playing around with photoshop in the bottom left, and talking with friends and looking at pictures of walruses in the bottom right. =]

[joelerch]

wow, hope i win !

[stancole]

You are obviously not very computer savy are you? If you knew anything about PC's then you would know that you have the SSD's for seek time with your OS and installed programs and the 300GB drives are for online data storage like movies, pictures and music. Vista Ultimate is for the media center capabilities.

This PC kick's serious butt!

[jimshoes]

What...no state-of-the-art webcam?

[MrBista007]

Cool PC, Always dreamt of spending 20- 30 grand on a beast of a machine.. pity the dream PC contest is only available to those in the USA. New Zealand misses out once again.. sigh...

[coastie65]

The downside is the big Tax Bill that will go with it. coastie65

[rleyba]

I agree about taking the money and building my own because I have no idea about some of the hardware mentioned and I don't really do the gamin' thing.

[Rathorian]

When I saw that PC World was giving away a $30,000 machine I almost fell off my chair. But when I saw the parts list I got a little jealous that I didn't own that good of a computer. I just want to say awesome build PC World. This just goes to show when money is no object, sky's the limit... Seeing this build only makes me want to build my own gaming pc once I have the funds for it. Keep it up PC World!!! :)

[mike091392]

If you get 23 grand, you can get a pretty good desktop without having to pay for the labor such as the hp blackbird 002 and you have the freedom of choice of which brand laptop you want or what's in it.

[ambivispice]

I looked up how much this would end up increasing my taxes. Depending on how much I make this year it is going to be between $1,500 and $2,500 (before deductions) ... which is about what I was planning to pay on a new computer anyways. Anyways, we all know I'm going to win it anyways. ;-)

[TCEppie]

I am so impressed and a little turned on :)

[samer1970]

Hi,
where are Blue ray writers?

[HumanJHawkins]

The trouble is that you can't take the money (even if they offered) because the money doesn't exist. Do you really think PC World is paying real money for this?

I am sure the companies are getting something out of it... Probably not more than the free advertising this lands them though. I suspect that's why the final parts list is not finalized... They are not 100% sure who is really going to deliver... They probably have good faith agreements on some of the parts for example, rather than firm commitments.

That doesn't reduce the value any... It probably would cost $35,000 if you bought everything at full retail value... Maybe $20,000 if you shop online. And you could probably sell it pretty easily for $10,000.. Or even part it out and sell it for $15,000+ on eBay. But that wouldn't be nice... It would probably make the people at PC World very sad.

[thebigguyconnor]

holy!

[coastie65]

Hi Bandit, Thanks for the info. I was thinking that was what they were, but couldn't locate them anywhere. Guess I need to work on my search techniques. coastie65

[rdrawdy]

HD DVD drives? Why not blu-ray?