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half_pint
http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/110_220043.html
I am thinking of buying it an I would appreciate any comments.
I am thinking of buying it an I would appreciate any comments.
Pen said:Definitely bottom end. Good for web surfing and word processing,
E-mail etc. but not much else.
half_pint said:Presumeable if I spend three times as much I will be able to
surf and send an email at the same time.
I doubt there is a machine on the planet which is much more than
twice as fast.
Am I correct?
Miss Perspicacia Tick said:Hello half-wit. No it's a HP. If you must go for a system from a large
company, go for a Dell -at least that way you'll be provided with a proper
OS CD. HP uses a recovery partition with a recovery CD. If the hard drive
fails you'll not only be down a hard drive, but an OS as well. HP will then
charge you five times as much to replace the hard drive with the OS
partition.
Presumeable if I spend three times as much I will be able to
surf and send an email at the same time.
I doubt there is a machine on the planet which is much more than
twice as fast.
Am I correct?
kony said:If you'll be heavily mutltasking it would help a lot to add
more memory, as 256MB is a bit light for WinXP. Granted
it'll still do all the things you can do on the Cyrix box,
even much more, much faster, but ultimately the memory will
be a more significant bottleneck to typical uses. "Most
people" will manage to need more than 256MB memory. It's
probably not worthwhile to buy that memory from HP though,
it'll be cheaper to add it later.
jacoby said:Kony is correct. You definitely will need more memory. The HP system uses up
to 64 meg of video shared memory.. In some instances this will leave only
192 megs of system memory to work with. Any operations requiring much memory
will cause your new system to come to screeching halt.
http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/110_220043.html
I am thinking of buying it an I would appreciate any comments.
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...tops/compaq_presario&storeName=computer_storeGeneral Schvantzkoph said:If you are looking for a budget PC I'd go with one that has a Sempron in
it rather than a Celeron. You'll get more bang for your buck (or in your
case quid) with an AMD processor.
half_pint said:http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...tops/compaq_presario&storeName=computer_store
Yes ideally I would like the Semperon unfortunately they are difficult to
get hold
of locally
http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/sto...sku=150361&category_oid=-20730&fm=9&sm=3&tm=0
is one I could get locally, but notice the "Temporarily Out of Stock"
I could try mail order or ebay but P&P tends to put the price up and then
there
is the hassle of being in when it is delivered.
Well 'up to' 64meg, my current system seems to manage fine with 2 meg.
Would only be a prob running many apps at once which I don't tend to do
much.
probably only
so much you can do in that area.
Currently my power supply is 90 watts!! 300 watts is like 3 fridges or a
small electric
fire. My PC is noisy enough as it is now, I dread to think how much noise
is
generated
cooling 300 watts.
Mac Cool said:half_pint:
If you can stretch your budget, I would lean heavily towards this:
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/desktops_Q4_W10
_dimen_5000_D01505?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs
Buy it today and get a free upgrade to flat screen monitor.
This one is cheaper but doesn't have an AGP slot so you couldn't add a 3D
video card later.
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/homepage_Q4_W10
_dimen_3000_D01302b?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd
Any of these systems are way more than 10X faster than your Cyrix. I had a
Cyrix P120 based system many years ago, served me well, but you'll be much
happier even with the HP.
Those links don't work!!