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TaBunny

Sigh all this techie talk I'm lost! I want to get a new pc this one is always crashing aparently it has 40Gig hard drive and 128mb of ram and its got 1300 mhz and 1.29ghz. I have no idea what any of that means I just copied it off properties menu. Anyway I would like to get a new comp with flat screen as we have a chunky old square one, one that records cds/dvds etc, we don't need a printer as we have a great one and a sack of inks to go with it but it must be able to plug in via a paralell port as it does not have a usb on the printer. Oh and lastly I'd like if poss to have more usb's as my comp now only has 2 and its so annoying having to keep unplugging the mouse or my webcam etc to plug in the scanner or my mobile phone!. Anyhow so if anyone can advise me on a good set up I could look into I'd be really greatful. We have no more than £500 cash and won't get any credit dont want to get into anymore debt so cash it will be. I've had a nose round comets and currys and looked on the Dell site but I'm so confused. Oh lastly I saw a deal in Woolworths of a whole pc set up for £399 called Medion I was gonna buy it does anyone know if its any good its on the woolworths website if anyone can have a look at it for me and let me know thanks.

P.p.s it must have a Modem internally as I'm still on dial up don't want to go broad band.

TaBunny

Still searching not found anything yet that I understand. Still tempted to buy the package from woolies

opportunity_cost

You could save yourself some good money if you upgraded your current PC rather than buying a new one. For the grand price total of £161.64 you could get a 15" TFT screen, 512MB more memory (128MB is really low), a DVD±RW unit that will record any type of cds and dvds and a 4-port USB adaptor (you can connect 4 USB devices to 1 USB port with that):

15" TFT Monitor
512mb DDR PC3200 400MHz 184pin Extra Value Ram
LG GSA-4167BAL 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer Internal IDE
Dynamode 4 Port Passive USB

The crashes you're experiencing could be fixed with a simple video card drivers update or Windows reinstall. At worst, you may need to format your hard drive and do a clean system install but that problem is fixable.

You would end up with a better system and probably a more reliable one than the Woolies' Medion system. Also, that Medion one is a laptop and laptops are largely not upgradeable so you'd have to buy a whole new PC if you wanted, say, a new video card or a faster processor.

wattapain

A good place to look could be https://www.novatech.co.uk esp @ this time of year.

Terri

jobbingmusician

I'd agree with opportunity_cost. I know a new rig is so much sexier, but unless you know what you are doing, you won't get anything decent for £500. It would be worth spending £50-100 of this money to get someone who KNOWS what they are doing (if you have friends or a son, most 16 year old boys would know!!!!) to do the upgrades o_c is suggesting, if you don't have the confidence yourself. (Or at least to do the memory upgrade - I'm sure you can plug in a multi-port USB, which as I understand it is just like plugging in an extension cable on your electricity supply )

So you know whereI'm coming from, I'm married to a computer geek but am not one myself, so I totally understand what you're going through and would have thought the same thing before I met OH. Now I know better