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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-30-11 11:09 PM Original message |
I need some advice on a new computer |
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ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. Well, with the |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 09:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. I was hoping they'd pick the HP myself... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 11:56 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. I've long been impressed by the sturdiness of HP products over Dell |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:09 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. My HP laptop died a few months ago... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. You're going to want more RAM than that |
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ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:34 AM Response to Reply #5 |
14. She had to send it back twice so I don't think it was the software. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 01:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. If they're mainly doing web-browsing and maybe a bit of word processing, I wouldn't drop a big |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 09:14 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Oh, the video card isn't too important... |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I think the main issue with reusing the case would be making sure your new mobo had the |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 11:20 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I'd never built anything until last summer; since then I've built seven machines |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 05:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Yeah, it's this kind of stuff that worries me |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:04 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I've got SATA drives in all my machines: they've been pretty much plug-n-play: |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:19 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. New horizons to me... |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 02:07 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. I got an acer aspire one about two years ago, which I've been rather happy with, |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 10:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Mom nixed the laptop idea |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
3. Here's a cheap prebuilt you might be able to drop your videocard into: |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 09:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Hey, that doesn't look too bad |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
17. Okay, we got one! Thanks for the help everybody! |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-03-11 07:09 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Get yourself one of these |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-03-11 11:22 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Great minds think alike... |
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