Re: Computer advice
- From: "Fedor_DeGazz" <Jody_1955(AT)nerdshack.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:34:58 -0400
"Puff Griffis" <puffmc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here is the deal. My first pc was a IBM AT some of you might remember 8
megs of ram and a 32 meg hard drive. It took me until the 100mhz Pentium
with windows 3.11 came out for me to upgrade. Then I got a Emachines 500mhz
Celeron with 98se. 40 gig hard drive and 512 megs of ram. My problem is. I
don't have a cd burner and I got my wife a MP3 player for her B-day and it
requires XP with the service pack. Now should I upgrade to XP and buy a
burner or should I get a whole new puter ? Help me out guy's I am in a
quandary.
Puff
I run a 600 MHz Dell PC with 320 megs of RAM, a DVD ROM drive and a
CD burner, using Windows XP. This system came with Win 98. It works fairly
well, plays DVDs just fine and all, but I think at 500 MHz you're a bit on
the edge for running XP. It will work, but you may not be happy with it, and
a lot of that depends on what applications you're running and plan to run in
the future. You do have enough memory for XP. I did it this way because I
had already upgraded my PC over time, and had much more into it than it was
worth, so it was a "in for a penny, in for a pound" kind of thing. Another
BIG issue is the speed of your Front Side Bus (FSB). Your machine likely has
a 100 MHz FSB, and the newer ones have a much faster FSB, and that can make
even more difference in speed than processor speed does. Every program you
run has to run in memory and be handled by the processor, and the FSB is the
"highway" over which all this data has to travel, back and forth between the
processor and the RAM. I continue to use this old PC because I am satisfied
with it for what I use it for, and I'm not one to lust after new software
and capabilities. But most people don't fit that description. I also use
dual-boot, and I have 2 operating systems installed (you can install XP and
still keep your current OS and choose either on boot-up, but you need a lot
more hard drive space for the 2 systems, and this may only work with XP
Professional, I'm not sure if the XP Home version can do it, although I
expect it probably can), and when I need the speed (for games and such) I
use my older OS. You most likely will want more hard drive space with XP
also (even if you don't plan to run it alongside your old OS). A new PC will
run better and be faster, and probably not cost any more in the long run,
and you can run more modern programs with it, and newer hardware. I've heard
the new Macs (which I have heard are now using an Intel processor) can run
Windows and the Mac OS in a dual boot configuration (I have not checked this
out, so I'm not stating it as a fact here), and if it is true, when I
finally am ready to get a new machine, I may look into getting a Mac. I've
always wanted to try one, but it may be a long time before I am ready to
replace this one, which I have had for many years..
Fedor
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