Re: Buying New PC

[rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm interested in this discussion too,

specifically, which processors models are 'adequate', 'good', 'best'
and 'avoid at all costs'

Costco has a $900 deal on a loaded Dell Pentium 4 with a 17 inch monitor.

On 12/5/05, Mark Allen <allenmar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> looking for recommendations would prefer to buy "everything" from one source:
>  Cost is a primary consideration also
>
>
>  1.  Use will be 80% internet access from home, mostly email, IM,web 
> browsing, connect to remote iSeries.
>  2.  Need 17" monitor prefer 19" but space an issue as is cost (?) for a flat 
> panel?
>  3.  60 GB preferred as minimum disk
>  4.  Mostly will be running MS Office stuff from the PC side (Powerpoint, 
> Access, Excel, Word,maybe some web page design)
>  5.  no need for DVD but need CD R/W (mostly for archive/backups)
>  6.  No need for ethernet capability (yet)
>  7.  At least 1 USB port for connecting a "thumb" drive
>
>  Thanks.........
>
>
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