Re: OT- Buying new computer, which way to go?
- From: "Aldo Pignotti" <aldopignotti@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 7 Jun 2006 06:50:01 -0700
Generally speaking, hardware follows software. Check the requirements
of the packages you are thinking about using. I know my son has a
couple
of games that require a video card with at least 256M of RAM. If
you're
not going to run games that require a video card, the on board graphics
chip set that comes with basic DELLs and GATEWAYs are fine. Even
Adboe's Premiere Elements only requires 256M of RAM. I think 512M
is the minimum but that's just me.
The more disk space you have the better but it's easy to upgrade a
basic DELL or GATEWAY later. I bought a basic GATEWAY machine
last year and I've added a wireless network card, a high end video
card (mostly for my son's games) and a FireWire card. I have 512M
of RAM and a single 72G drive but I'm going to add 512M of RAM
and another 72G disk drive soon, mostly for video. Video takes up
gobs of RAM and disk space. If you're just running something like
Photoshop, 512M of RAM and 72G of disk space is fine.
You can put a system together yourself but you're not going to have
any odd compatibilty problems if you run an Intel machine from DELL
or GATEWAY. You'll probably want to upgrade the monitor from one
of their basic packages. If you're thinking about doing any video
editting, you'll want a machine with either FireWire built in or at
least be able to add a FireWire card. I know Apple had FireWire a
long time before PCs but Apple just doesn't have the all the
applications
that PCs do. MACs are cool and come with all sorts of great built
in applications but PCs have by far the most applications. You can
even find great applications for PCs that are free out on the web.
.
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