Re: Recommendations wanted


"Onideus Mad Hatter" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 07:28:08 -0400, "CapCity" <CapCity@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


"Stan" <stanleyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK guys, here's a chance to pontificate & have someone actually pay
attention.

Her: a senior citizen with a failing 5-year-old Dell.

She wants to replace it and is wondering: what "name-brand" PCs are
known
for their good quality? (she doesn't want to pay to have one assembled,
she wants to buy one from a store that will stand behind their product).

She's not a power-user...won't do much more than MS Office, QuickBooks
and
web surfing. I'm suggesting to her to have a RAID setup so she doesn't
ever have to worry about losing data.

So, what do you like & why?


In my experience the only thing that made a huge difference was ease of
future expansion/modification. With USB, not so much an issue, and it
definitely doesn't sound like your user is one to be concerned with it,
either. If the big concern is service, find out who in her area has the
best
offer for service, and has a good reputation for honoring their service
agreement.

I have to agree with OMH on the RAID, though. She's not a power user, it's
not worth the cost and hassle for a RAID for her. She can save her docs to
CD/DVD.

Even better just get her a USB thumb drive to store her stuff on.
That's what I did for my dad and he's never been happier. The whole
system could go to *** and he's got all his files on the thumb drive.
Makes upgrading for him real easy too cause he could just go and get a
whole new system if he wanted to and all he has to do is pop in his
USB drive to have access to his data.


There you have it, even better. Thumb drive is perfect - those little
bastards have loads of space nowadays.

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