Advice on buying new PC

shopsmile

Hi,

I was hoping for a little advice from all you experts. I am looking to buy a new PC but am not sure what I need.

I run Sage Accounting Software to do the accounts for oh's small business. I use a few small excel worksheets, use word a lot and save a few digital photos - but not in any expert way. Other than that just email and internet use.

I have heard Dell recommended, but other than that I have no idea where to start looking or what sort of criteria I'm looking at.

If anyone can help I will be eternally grateful!!

greyskittles

There are some great Dell deals posted on this site, and you can earn cashback too -

http://www.rpoints.com/bb/viewforum.php?f=188

That's where I found the link to my new Dell pc


Edit - this is what I got, except it has been reduced more. If you change the hardware support to collect and return 1 yr service, then it's £329 total.

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&oc=D06E02a

albertross_2

Any PC will do the above, Office is probably the most expensive bit, but you could always use openoffice, which is free.

https://www.dmxdimension.com

http://www.openoffice.org/

msaquib

Hi,

I have been looking at https://www.dmxdimension.com website.

Couple of questions if anyone can answere?

1. Whats the differents between AMD Athlon 64 X2 & Intel Core 2 Duo.
2. What's the differents between Vista™ Home Premium & Vista™ Business

And finally has anyone taken out hardware support (3 years onsite service from Dell) Is this any good to take?

Thanks
MS

albertross_2

1. The price. AMD processors are cheaper.
2. http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=587581&SiteID=17

3. no, unless you are very unlucky, you won't need it, ( constant tumbling prices make extended warranties bad value.)

msaquib

Thanks for the reply.

So the AMP are cheap - why? Intel & AMD are both dual core processors.

What do you think of Dell Dimension E521:-

I have chosen:- Athlon™ 64 X2 4400+ 2048MB 320GB 16X DVD +/- RW 20" Wide TFT E207WFP 256MB nVidia® GeForce® 7300 Vista™ Home Basic £388 D06E11a

Is it worth to take 3 years extra cover?

Also I want earn cashback through quidco but when I click on the link it takes me direct to Dell website not to dmxdimension.com. How this would be done?

Thanks
MS

Heidy_2

msaquib wrote: »

Hi,

I have been looking at https://www.dmxdimension.com website.

Couple of questions if anyone can answere?

1. Whats the differents between AMD Athlon 64 X2 & Intel Core 2 Duo.
2. What's the differents between Vista™ Home Premium & Vista™ Business

And finally has anyone taken out hardware support (3 years onsite service from Dell) Is this any good to take?

Thanks
MS

Dells Indian Tech support has improved in leaps and bounds the Indians you can understand what they say they do NOT rush you off the phone either each call is normally quality monitored by a follow up email too to give feedback.

All in All very good I think,

Heidy

AngLangS

One good place to check out is https://www.hotukdeals.com and select Dell as the merchant.

I've recently bought a Dell package - really cheap, goes like stink and I'm over the moon with it.

Watch out especially for posts by MikeT (he also posts in this forum) - he posts some great deals

Ang