AKICILJ: New computer
Dec. 7th, 2010 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carbonelI want a new Windows desktop computer, and I'm looking for recommendations. I'd like to spend under $1,000, and it doesn't need to be the whizziest thing ever. I don't do video games or high-end photo/graphic editing. But I'd like something that's a step up from what I have now -- a work-provided Dell from at least five years ago.
I don't know whether I want Window 7 Home Premium or Professional version -- recommendations solicited there as well.
This will be my work computer as well as my personal computer, and the applications I use most are Word, Excel, Eudora (yes, still), and Outlook.
This is going to be a leapfrog in a couple of directions, since I'll be going from XP to Windows 7 (skipping Vista) and from Office 2003 to Office 2010 (skipping Office 2007). I don't really need a new monitor, though if one were bundled in, it might be nice to have two monitors if I could make room for it -- I do a lot of side-by-side document stuff.
I'd like at least 1 terabyte of storage, but I have no idea what sort of RAM I should be looking at, or what other parameters I should have in mind. And this may be trivial, but I currently have four USB slots plus a four-slot expander that uses up one of those slots, but I still keep running out of slots, so lots of USB slots are a plus.
Recommendations and advice appreciated.
I don't know whether I want Window 7 Home Premium or Professional version -- recommendations solicited there as well.
This will be my work computer as well as my personal computer, and the applications I use most are Word, Excel, Eudora (yes, still), and Outlook.
This is going to be a leapfrog in a couple of directions, since I'll be going from XP to Windows 7 (skipping Vista) and from Office 2003 to Office 2010 (skipping Office 2007). I don't really need a new monitor, though if one were bundled in, it might be nice to have two monitors if I could make room for it -- I do a lot of side-by-side document stuff.
I'd like at least 1 terabyte of storage, but I have no idea what sort of RAM I should be looking at, or what other parameters I should have in mind. And this may be trivial, but I currently have four USB slots plus a four-slot expander that uses up one of those slots, but I still keep running out of slots, so lots of USB slots are a plus.
Recommendations and advice appreciated.
