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Offline Moley

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New P.C.
« on: May 06, 2010, 11:11:50 AM »
Once the changeover to B.T. broadband is done, the wife is suggesting we get a new P.C.
This P.C. is about 8 years old and has Windows XP on it.
We aim to experiment once the B.T. connection is active to see if the wireless works well enough or if we have to plug straight into the socket
Bearing in mind that the new connection will be slooow anyway. Can anyone suggest which P.C. we should go for?
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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2010, 11:20:34 AM »
One of these Moley

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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2010, 11:27:39 AM »
HUW - I think your cunning plan to run a remote hosting service from Moley's house might hit a few problems with his crappy ADSL connection  :P

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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2010, 12:03:44 PM »
Given Moley's demanding requirements (web browsing, e-mail AND word processing  :shock:) I think something like this is the minimum he should be considering. He'll need Windows 9 as well ...
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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2010, 05:31:33 PM »
how much is it do install windows 9?
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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2010, 11:28:12 PM »
Quote from: siwan on May 06, 2010, 05:31:33 PM
how much is it do install windows 9?

Infinite amout of dosh Siw - W9 doesn't exist yet - most recent is W7 ;) - cost varies depending on whether your installing from scratch or upgrading from XP/Vista/LInux ( :P) etc....

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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2010, 07:02:03 AM »
O.K.

Time to get

SERIOUS !  (No Geek Speek )  Fill in the blanks -

"O.K. Moley.....
1. Go to -------------------
2. Tell nice anorak assistant that you know EXACTLY what you want so he can keep his sales pitch.
3. Say "I want to buy a ----------------with ------------(ram megathinggys) for £----------"
4. Say "I want --------------------------- installed on it already"
5.Pay money and walk out with it."

Possible ?????

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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2010, 07:14:34 AM »
Yes - though theres a chance that you may be able to save a fair few £ by getting one of your Kohai-Geeks to build one to a similar spec.

As you don't seem to be a PC Games Player Moley or a Graphic Artist or Pro-Photo Editor pretty much any PC you can buy these days will be more than adequate for your needs so you could simply have al ook online at current PCWorld deals and pick the cheapest.

...unless HUW knows otherwise of course..... ;)

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« Last Edit: May 07, 2010, 07:16:10 AM by JimmyTheHoover »
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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2010, 07:27:02 AM »
Ahh but Huw HATES all Microsoft products and would rather have me use a computer in binary.

I have heard that the new Windows Vista is absolutely awful and very very slow. So I don't want that.
So what do I want ?
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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2010, 09:17:58 AM »
OK Moley - your choices are roughly like this ...

Do you want to move your computer around? If yes, buy a laptop - otherwise buy a desktop.

Assuming you'll go for a desktop (I've never seen your laptop move) then pretty much anything will do. As a minimum spec go for a dual core processor, 2Gb of RAM and a 20 inch TFT screen. We recently bought a bunch of HP desktops of this spec for college and I'm very impressed with them. Build quality is excellent, they're fast enough for pretty much anything except games and they're very quiet. I'll dig out some prices.

Vista was awful from what I hear - and my eldest son says that Windows 7 is rubbish too. If you don't want to muck around then consider Ubuntu linux - very fast and very simple to use. B&D  - what did you think of Ubuntu the other night?
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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2010, 11:19:34 AM »
I wish my karate moves were as quick as the aforementioned programmes on Huw's machine. :)
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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2010, 02:48:27 PM »
Well I've got Vista at home on a Laptop and the performance is fine but W7 is reported to be more responsive.

My main issue with Vista was the "step jump" in the user interface it involved  - at least for  me and I'm fairly computer literate...

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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2010, 03:40:09 PM »
Moley,

This is the new one I got

Model - Acer Aspire AX1301
CPU - AMD Athlon ll X3 425 triple-core procesor
Memory - 3GB DDR2
HDD - 320 GB
ODD - DVD Super Multi drive
OS - Windows 7 Home premium  64bit
VGA - 9200 Integrated NVIDIA GeForce

The W7 is simple enough, but MS Office 2007 is crap.  I've put Office 2003 on it.
I don't use Outlook for e-mail, Windows live is nice and simple to use.
I've also got rid of the antivirus that came with it and installed avast (as per JTH)

The laptop is running XP via wireless to my netgear, so is my Wii and there have been no problems.

I'm going to buy an external HD just to put pictures on, so I don't put too much crap on this. 

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Re: New P.C.
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2010, 06:43:21 AM »
 :D just had a new pc feb, went to mesh computers really good, customer services very helpful.


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