My opinion - QVC is a ripoff operation with high prices. You can be sure anything they sell can be found for a better price elsewhere.

Have you looked on the Dell site? Amazon? Costco? Newegg?

My friend has a dell desktop and 2 dell laptops she bought from QVC and never had any issues at all. Compare the prices with the dell site. For her she made out good price wise and has been very happy. I have ordered many things from QVC over the years problem free and they have good customer service if you do have a problem. Mary

I have 6 Dells most quite old. Never had any problems with them and they all still work.

I have always bought from the Dell website except one laptop I bought really cheap from Walmart which still works well.

Someone knew I was looking to get a new computer and said QVC was selling tonight. I looked and it seemed like a good deal. Was a Intel I5 processor with 1T hard drive and 5G memory. 17" HD screen.

I spent the day looking on line and couldn't find anything with those specs at that price. Including the Dell website. Plus they charge for tech support.

Anyway, the sale is over and I didn't pull the trigger. I'll keep looking. I'm a bit hesitant about upgrading Win8 to Win10. I'm wondering if the machines sold with Win10 will run better than the upgrades. I might just keep using XP (which has no problems) until the Fall when Win 10 comes on the market.

Thanks for the info,
Jane

I wouldn't personally own a Dell and yes QVC over inflates their prices even HSN was always better on prices, but for comparison sake in todays Sun. paper at Office Depot they have and 17.3" HP laptop, 6GB RAM (not 8) but still fast for a laptop and 1T HD for $429.99 (oh and it's a quad core) HP is my preference of PC's and I have 4 online in my home. Do some research online before you buy even Walmart has great deals on PC's.

Thanks. I never had a problem with Dells, so I guess I'm lucky.
I have had problems with an HP laptop, and decided I wouldn't deal with them again. Could have been bad luck, but it does turn you against dealing with a company you had a hard time with.

My experience has been that most businesses use Dell computers so they must be doing something right. I guess its sort of like Chevy or Ford.

I am looking for a desktop. I was tempted to get a laptop which I could hook a monitor to, but it costs more than buying a desktop. I want an I5 or I7. I want memory and hard-drive. I want HDMI and lots of usb ports. I want a good monitor and I want a machine where I can stream video and not worry about it. And, I'd like to keep it under $1,200.00!

I'll keep looking. Doing a lot of research because I would be replacing our main computer. We do have lots of laptops, XP and a Win 7 and Win 8 (never use it). I still have concern about the upgrade option to Win 10. Might be better to wait until the compters come installed with it. Hopefully the bugs will be worked out by then. I'm glad to hear I can use my older version of Office on a Win 8.

So glad our XP's are still going strong and all our security software still updates without any problems.

Jane

Yes, please do look online check out Tiger Direct, Walmart etc. etc. because I own 2 new desktops as well with W8.1 and the one I am on now has all you require and, a nice big 21" monitor and no way would I ever pay a grand, I didn't even pay $500 for this one. And HP has been awesome to me, even one of the bigwigs gave me his ext. number if I ever needed to call him, he was so impressed that I have 4HP PC's and like them so much, and that I help other seniors with PC problems.

For those of you holding out for Windows 10, why do you believe that it will be simpler than Windows 8?

No reason to "hold out" Microsoft will be offering a Free upgrade to W10 for anyone using W7 or 8 and you will have one year to get it Free, it will have a new browser called Spartan, since so many complain about IE it is to be fast and efficient? and will have Cortana in it which will speak to us and we can ask it questions, "purty kewl" also another feature is being able to group tabs, which is nice for multi taskers.

I did not know that it would be available to win 7 users. I have never had issues with IE and it's all I like to use so something tells me it's going to turn the other way around if I use Spartan. That would be just the way my luck goes, he he. I will probably not take advantage of it and just stick with 7 unless my computers die and I have to get new ones. Mary

Win10 will have 2 browsers, IE & the new Spartan.

And yes it is to be made available for W7 & 8 however it is a technical preview and may well have bugs to work out so it's best to think before jumping into the Free preview upgrade, also I just read you can not go back to 7 or 8.1 unless you do a complete recovery.

Thanks, I have looked around. Anything under $1,000.00 didn't have what I want.

I agree that Win 10 upgrade might not be something I want. Might want to wait for MS to work out the bugs.

Jane