Re: Computer geeks in the US
- From: "Patrick Keenan" <test@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:30:16 -0400
"Steve Johnson" <steve9199@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wife's looking to upgrade to a new PC for her home bookkeeping
business. I know most automatically think of Dell, but is there a
better place to get good PC's? She doesn't do audio or video app's,
so audio & video cards can be basic. She does run multiple screens of
accounting software (along with a browser & Excel) at any one time,
which tend to be memory/resource hogs.
Any recommendations?
-d
OK...
First off, I do computer work for the copier company I work for, and this
is what I've found out recently. Windows 7 is coming out at the end of
the year (released to OEM's just in time for the holidays) and I installed
the release candidate on my boss's wife's laptop. She absolutely LOVED
it. It has the look of Vista, but it's not a resource hog (her laptop
only had 1 gig of RAM and it ran like a maniac!! I kid you not!) I think
Microsquash finally got one right with this OS. Anyone remember Windows
ME?....(shudder)
-2 gigs RAM
-256 MB Video card with dual-monitor support (she wants 2 screens, right?)
-At least Core 2 dual processor at 2 GHz speed
-160 Gig or larger HDD
-DVD Rom or R/W
-USB 2 and Firewire
External sound card probably not necessary, but might be a nice
addition...your choice.
You can pretty much get that built by any major PC manufacturer. Once you
plug all those parameters into the various computer company websites, then
shop price. As of right now, the only way to get a PC with XP is to order
Actually, the trick here is to not use the "home and home office" pages on
the vendor's site.
Instead, if you change the page and choose systems that are targeted towards
medium and larger businesses, these generally have XP Pro as a "downgrade"
option.
But, not all systems intended for Vista work as well with XP. My Thinkpad,
for example, runs faster with Vista than with XP Pro.
In the end, though, for what the OP is going to use this system for, a used
HP d7100 is an excellent, solid and reliable system with a legit XP Pro
license for a couple hundred bucks.
-pk
Vista Ultimate or Vista Business and order the XP downgrade, or order one
with no O.S. and hit Best Buy to grab a box copy of XP Pro while you still
can. Otherwise I would wait until Win 7 hits the stores. Win 7 Ultimate
actually has a full version of XP built into a virtual machine in the
operating system, in case you have a program or piece of hardware that HAS
to have XP to run.
...happy shopping.
.
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