Techguy....pardon the dumb question but is the list below the blue line in your post the hardware you are recommending?
no that is just what I recently built for myself lol. for video editing and such I would reccommend a dual core processor for you. are you looking for a ready made pc? or one you will build yourself and save alot of money on?
Techguy: I am afraid if I try to build it myself, it will end up costing more in screwup $$$. We recently remodeled our house and we had it wired cat5 wired for an integrated computer, video, tv, etc system. When I get my new stuff, we plan to have the same guys come back who installed the wiring set up and have them install all our hardware (my husband's home office and my new stuff) and network everything...so they will put together whatever I get. It was one of their guys (whose actual area of expertise is TVs) who suggested I go on this forum for help and suggested I consider buying the components from Dell. Before that I was thinking I would try to buy a ready made system...but I know its not that simple. I went to Circuit City and they guy there know only a bit more than I do...which is not much.
ok well that is fine! I know people at circuit city and best buy no nothing about computers at all, it sort of amazes me how they can get a job. my guess is there just regular salesman. in this case I would go ahead and go with a dell atleast you can fully customize it to your needs. and thats better than I can say for bestbuy or circuit city.
You might as well throw in the salemen/salesladies at office depot.We couldn't even get anyone there to show us their selection of pcs! LOL
I guess I'll post my laptop specs: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 1 GB RAM 80 GB hard drive XP Home SP2 DVD+-RW/CD-RW drive 15.4" Brightview display Wireless G ATI Radeon Express 200M
hopefully when i leave I.T. this year i can take away one if the multi-CPU Sun servers that are due to be scrapped soon, and try to keep my knowledge going, just in case i ever do come back to computers. The one i have in mind has about 8 CPUs, 8GB of ram and about a 22 36gb disks in a fibre-attached disk array. yum
@bbmayo - i know!, that lot would be more than ballast, it would sink it. And the power draw would black out everyone else's boats. I'm gonna move back on dry land in a few months anyhow, but i think i'll keep it simple and buy a small desktop Sun server, just something small to keep the know-how going. Plus a PC with Linux (Mandrake probably) just to fiddle with, and a few modern PC's for good measure (to help me keep up to speed with you PC whizzes!). Will be able to get my 2 rather large cases back in action, but this time may not bother with the 14 cooling fans in each
I got 2 cases that look just like that sitting in my garage I haven't used them in a while, but I am fixin to dust one off and build another system strictly used to back up DVD's
creaky, when i worked at celestica which was spun off from ibm in the mid 90's, i worked in the sun microsystems unit testing & fixing motherboards & daughter cards. my 20" monitor is a sun.
@ddp - hey, nice one, i been doing Solaris for 5yrs. My firm is mainly a Sun shop, though we're now going Fujitsu for the big iron, with NetApp filers. i'm looking at getting a small Sun Ultra 5 for me, and am currently copying Solaris 9 & 10 (Sparc & Intel versions), so i have enough choice, to keep my hand in for when i get around to it.
heres mine updated [bold]Antec Overature ATX Quiet Media Case w/ TruePower480Watt/Asus K8V SE/ Seagate160GB Barracuda/ ATI-Radeon-X850 XT Platinum/ 512 PC-3200 DDR400 X 2/AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 512K/5 Fans/Plextor712A Drives/View Sonic VP201b 20.1"LCD,16 MS Respone time[/bold] and yeah thats a bad ass video card !!!
I upgraded mine a bit still windows xp home 3.0E pentium 4 oc 3.8 w/6 fans hardrives(1x300)(1x80)(1x60)=440gb maxtor @7200 rpm sony dual layer burner cd-rom drive Ati Radeon 9800 pro 2560 mb ram pc3200 Sound blaster audigysound card
Try not to laugh to much ;-) Intel Celeron 2 (300 Mhz) [bold] 8 [/bold] Gig Hard drive Generic no name CDRW (8* max write speed) Soundblaster Card Generic 1Mb graphics No Floppy (something wrong with the board - i think lol) XP Pro (sp 2) Think it might be time to build a new computer, still works though sort of lmao ;-)
your xp pro is worth more than the whole pc, and why do you pay for internet access on that thing LOL, j/k dude.
