Picking Up A New Computer Tomorrow
 

My old laptop's screen cracked, and the charger port is hanging on by a thread. So it's time for a new one. I have one I was trying out now, but it's uber slow. So here's the specs on the one I'm looking at.
AMD Phenom ll x2 processor
17.3 inch display
500 gb hard drive
4 gbs RAM
Blue Ray ROM that won't be going to any use
What yal think?

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Well, I'm a Mac person myself.

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I'm not. I spent the last 5 years working on Windows computers, it's what I know and love.

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Sorry that I can't help you on this one Matt. I'm a Mac person too.

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I might partition and use Linux.

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Blasphemers!

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Actually i was considering installing ubuntu. I really need to learn my way around linux. As a second partition of course.

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My son talks about using ubuntu. I might think about that too.

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:lol

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Why will you not ever use the Blu-ray drive?

Those specs sound fine for general use like surfing the internet, word processing ,etc.

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Yeah I'm not trying to run bioshock with it. It is however advertised as a budget-friendly gaming system.

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I don't watch movies.

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Sounds fine to me. I am assuming the video card portion is a cut above the low end?

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The reason I am a Mac person is:

Before I retired from GE on March 1, 1959 I used a computer in my work. We were on whatever the latest Windows system was at the time. I could do enough to do my job but was not very adept with it.

During Thanksgiving dinner 2000 one of my sons asked me if I missed GE. I told him the only thing I missed about GE was the emails and jokes. That year for Christmas he gave me an iMac. Well, since I was not very computer savvy and this was a whole new system I bought a book called "The iMac for Dummies" and started out on page 1. I went page by page until I got far enough that I could do some emails, word processing, internet searching, etc and closed the book. I've pretty much remained there.

I joined an online Mac Users Group called CMUG (Christian Mac Users Group) and that helped me with some questions as they came up. I also joined a local Mac Users Group called AppleSiders in March 2001. Their web site is http://www.applesiders.org/Home.html I still belong to that group and have learned a few things. I dropped out of the online Mac Users Group to cut down on emails received. If you are interested I think it is still active and you can find out about them at
http://macministry.org/Site/Mac_Ministry.html

My original iMac was retired a few years ago. I currently have 2 old (close to obsolete) Macs which I use.

My laptop is a 800 MHz iBook G4, purchased 2/6/2004
640 MB Memory
30 GB Hard Drive
OS 10.4.11 Tiger

My desktop is a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac,
purchased 11/8/2007
4 GB Memory
300 GB Hard Drive
OS 10.7.4 Lion

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Not really sure Randy...I'mma check tomorrow. I'm assuming its a standard laptop card built into the motherboard...

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So...got the new computer. I had to sacrifice the Phenom processor, it woulda ran me too high. Here's the specs on the one I got.
AMD A4 processor
4 gb RAM
15.5 inch display
Beat audio
500 gb hard drive
Microsoft Office Starter
(I gave up the woulda been worthless to me blueray player)

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I bought mine in 2009 and just recently added up to 8 GB of memory. Being on dialup, it really slows down when memory is low. And the updates are necessary if you want your mac to run properly. Everytime Apple puts out a new OS, my son must get it the day it comes out. :D

By the time this one goes kaput, I hope to have enough money already saved up for another one.

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Congrats. So can I assume that it comes with Windows 7 64 bit Home version?

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Nah That was too expensive. I'm running Windows 98 SE. :heeheehee

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As much of an AMD fan I am, when it comes to laptops I only go Intel. Their Mobile CPUs are better/faster but more expensive

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I'm a pure Intel man through and through, but when buck came to dollar, AMD was the way to go. I need to expand myself anyways.

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The computer's awesome by the way. It zooms. The real test is when I get home with it and hook it up to my aircard. A step above dialup, but not much of one.

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my desktop has a six core AMD 1090t processor but really the only reason I needed it was for rendering High Definition video edits for our Wedding & Event Videography business. For all other purposes it seems no faster than my daughter's laptop with a quad core AMD processor and a lot less RAM (her - 4gb RAM / my desktop 12 gb RAM)

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Speaking of video editing, I just bought Sony's Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 software on YOUR recommendation. :) Can't wait for Amazon to deliver it!

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Mine too but Im still running Win XP

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Is that like a "lite" version or the whole thing?

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It is sort of a home version of their pro software. CC1 can tell you about the differences, but this seems to do everything I need.

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Very respectable. I looooved my quad core, but its a desktop and my place doesnt really have room for a desktop. I'm pretty sure the only thing it needs to fix it is a power supply. But the equipment it's running, the power supply I need would run me at least a hundred.

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I can understand why. In my opinion, XP is the most well rounded operating system in Microsoft history. Most definitely one of the easiest to work on at least.

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I might be getting a new laptop in the very near future (and broadband, instead of this slow dialup). But for years now,..I have been putting together older computers (my "newest" one is a Dell Optiplex gx270--p4--2.8Ghz--1G ram--160G hard drive,.... from 2004).

I "triple-boot" Windows XP,...Slackware Linux 13.37,...and Racy Puppy Linux 5.2.2.

One of my old PIII computers runs windows 2000 with games for the grandson (he loves it).

(PS: I have also run Mandriva Linux, Linux Mint, Vector Linux, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, OpenSuse, FreeBSD, PCBSD, Mepis Linux, AntiX, DreamLinux, Debian, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc) What can I say? I love old computers and Linux.

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Maybe I can raid your mind for information then. I'm thinking of installing Ubuntu on a second partition, to expand my knowledge a bit more. I've been a hardcore Windows man since 95.

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Eh...I have an 8 core AMD CPU, 2 video cards in SLI format and 4 gigs ram...got my PS for roughly $60 on sale at frys.

You can get a PS tester there too really cheap.
calculate PS needs
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

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I paid 89 for my OCZ 700 watt one so they're not too incredibly pricey.

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Well, I got mine, and I paid retail for it, so I'll have to be satisfied. Say a prayer for me guys, I'm in the middle of a Ubuntu install. Hope I did everything right, I wouldn't want to restart and find Windows unbootable. If worst comes to worst, I can always boot
Ubuntu from cd! Lol.

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Hmm...Apparently the ubuntu install didn't work...my computer booted straight to windows.

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So....anyone have a Windows 7 boot disk lying around somewhere? If not...I sure hope I like Ubuntu...*sigh*

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Whoo hoo! I found a legal Windows 7 ISO!

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Where in the world did you buy this computer that you don't have a Windows 7 reboot disc or access online to download it?????

Please tell me you didn't buy a used laptop when you can buy new ones for $299 and $399

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Ah, so you've graduated to selling used laptops, now, eh?

:laffatu

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Most Laptops come with install files on a partitioned drive. Usually before bootup you hit some key to enter into restore mode