Picking Up A New Computer Tomorrow

[The Matt]

Originally Posted by CC1

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

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

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

[The Matt]

Originally Posted by CC1

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

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

I don't watch movies.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by The Matt

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?

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

[Sam]

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

[The Matt]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

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

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

[The Matt]

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)

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by Sam

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

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.

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

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by The Matt

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)

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

[The Matt]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

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

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

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by The Matt

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?

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