My first experience with woot.com was a huge success. The quad-core PC I ordered prior to my arrival in TX was a wise purchase. I was finally able to break it out of the box last night and was very pleased with the result.
Thanks to twitter (I know I use that phrase way too often), I was made aware of a daily offering that was exactly what I was looking for. @sbourke’s recommendation was all I needed. Sitting in the backseat on the M25 at the time, I managed to create an account and place my order via my blackberry. I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into having never used the site before, but I’m glad I made the purchase. I had been planning on building my own PC, but the price of the system I wanted was a little high.
Along came woot. A refurbished HP machine with all the power I need and none of the extra expense. I’m duly impressed with the performance of the AMD X4 9550 quad-core coupled with 6 GB of RAM. The Vista experience is like night and day in comparison to my previous dual core processor. It’s so good, in fact, that I momentarily considered not replacing it with Ubuntu. That moment didn’t last long.
