Saw this on the front page of Target Catalogue this week:

Mercury PC $699, includes keyboard, speakers and Lexmark Z513 printer.

• Celeron 2.xxGhz^*
• 256Mb RAM
• 40Gb Hard Disk
• 56k Modem
• 17″ CRT monitor
• Combo drive (burn CD watch DVD)
• Windows XP Home Edition
• 64Mb integrated graphics

* Can’t read the exact spec on the heavily distorted JPEG file.

Everything housed inside a dodgy-looking black case. Not bad a deal I think, if you can live with possibly sub-standard components. Lexmark Z513 costs around $50, and it prints colour. WinXP Home OEM would cost $100, and I am not sure what kind of computer you can build with $550.

Add another half gig of memory, and it would be a nice buy, if you need a new computer to get through student life. Deal closes 13th of July coming Wednesday.