2¾ years ago I bought a refurbished computer as an interim measure. I had little money at the time (and still do). It was only meant to be for about 6 months to a year at most.
It's now really slow. So I'm going for another interim computer which will be for just a year.
It is 3.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 80GB hard drive. To be honest - I'm just going for one that is enough for Sage Client Manager. Is this enough (it is enough for Sage CM) ? I'm not using it for games or anything like that. In fact, all I really want it for is spreadsheets and Sage/VT.
£217.47 - and this includes a 19" monitor, keyboard and mouse. Although I may just buy a larger monitor and use the 19" monitor with another computer.
It's Windows 7 - up till now I've been using XP - skipped out anything in between. How much of a difference is there? Sheldon Cooper doesn't like Windows 7 because it is too user friendly - so it he right?
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the 3.4ghz is fine but you could do with doubling the Ram to at least 4GB otherwise you will find it really slow due to paging stuff in and out.
I wouldn't be happy with a hard drive of only 80gb considering that the operating system alone is goiing to take up 26 gb of that and you shouldn't fill up more than 85% of the hard drive or you won't be able to defrag it.
You may be able to get by with it but just a warning that you will probably only be able to use it for the things that you are initially thinking of installing.
I would definitely budget for more Ram though but at least that's really easy to add.
Yep, sheldon's right. Windows 7 is really user freindly and every bit as dependable as XP.
HTH,
Shaun.
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You got to be careful with RAM though Shaun, DDR2 is like hens teeth to find, yet DDR3 is more or less free to a good home as are larger hard drives.
Haha so true, ram appears to increase in value the older the tech gets. I built a rubbish pc for my daughter, you know the one just a tester to see if she uses it before spending good money. The motherboard, ram, cpu and graphics I got for £20 off someone I know. When I decided that it needs more ram to at least be able to open firefox, (we're talking real old tech here 128m ram ) I had a look around, it turned out to be more expensive than the latest stuff that I wanted for my machine. Since then the board died so I now have 2 sticks of 512 400mhz Corsair ram. I think I will sell them when they hit antique status.
I was in PC World yesterday (yeah, only to laugh at what little knowledge the sales staff really have) but they were doing a good deal that caught my eye. Dual core AMD-450, 4GB ram and 500GB hdd for £280. You don't get a monitor at that price but I think you say you don't really need one. I am seriously thinking about it too. Heres a link: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/compaq-cq1120uk-desktop-pc-11875752-pdt.html
I'm looking at a few on Ebay now. I think I'll stay away from the PC World computer. Nothing wrong with it or PC World - just in my head I want a temporary (?) PC now for business use only. If I got a new one I'd be tempted to use it for personal use as well. My brain is a funny old thing.
Incidentally - the current PC may be slow but it is quite intelligent. It knows it is soon to be replaced and is grinding to a halt in protest. It must be reading what I post and the websites I look at. I think I just heard it sniggering.
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) I had a look around, it turned out to be more expensive than the latest stuff that I wanted for my machine. Since then the board died so I now have 2 sticks of 512 400mhz Corsair ram. I think I will sell them when they hit antique status.
