Desktop (tower)

googler

melbury wrote: »

I am a complete technophobe and too scared to attempt upgrading my own computer. I wish techie people would understand that some of us simply do not comprehend how computers work and are far too nervous to undertake this type of thing.

Years ago, I did not know how to do this either, but I educated myself. It's not rocket science, and although you suggest it's beyond you, I'm sure you have the capability to do it - if you put your mind to it.

Don't you want to learn new stuff? I encourage you to do so.

There's honestly nothing to be scared of. With nothing but removal of plugs from sockets, and replacement of other plugs and sockets, you can remove the current hard drive from your tower, install a new solid state drive, and put a fresh operating system on it, all for way less than £450. We can guide you through the specifics in more detail. We can then guide you through transferring any data from the old drive to new, ideally using the old drive as a secondary drive within the existing tower.


If you fail at any point, you can unplug what you did, and plug the old drive back in, and it will still work EXACTLY AS IT DID BEFORE. You have a fallback position.

melbury

googler wrote: »

Years ago, I did not know how to do this either, but I educated myself. It's not rocket science, and although you suggest it's beyond you, I'm sure you have the capability to do it - if you put your mind to it.

Don't you want to learn new stuff? I encourage you to do so.

There's honestly nothing to be scared of. With nothing but removal of plugs from sockets, and replacement of other plugs and sockets, you can remove the current hard drive from your tower, install a new solid state drive, and put a fresh operating system on it, all for way less than £450. We can guide you through the specifics in more detail. We can then guide you through transferring any data from the old drive to new, ideally using the old drive as a secondary drive within the existing tower.


If you fail at any point, you can unplug what you did, and plug the old drive back in, and it will still work EXACTLY AS IT DID BEFORE. You have a fallback position.

Thank you for your very informative and understanding post.

To be honest and although completely unrelated to the computer upgrade, I have far too many other things to worry about at the moment (namely my OH's health) and I just don't feel that I can apply myself to undertaking something like this.

Computers scare me and if any little thing goes wrong I panic:(

I have found a Dell Optiplex for £169 and think I will go with that. It also has a 36 month warranty.

Thanks again.

Cisco001

Have a look at CEX for their 2 year warranty.

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EveryWhere

melbury wrote: »

I wonder why EveryWhere has put me on his ignore list.

The only think I can think of is that he got cross with me because I am a complete technophobe and too scared to attempt upgrading my own computer. I wish techie people would understand that some of us simply do not comprehend how computers work and are far too nervous to undertake this type of thing.

Thus replacement is the only option my mind can cope with:(

No such thing as a Technophobe.
I would have some respect for you if you at least tried. You could be done and dusted within an hour.
Not cross, but if you won't even try to help yourself, there is no point in me expending energy trying to help you. The ignore list saves me from making the same mistake twice.

googler

melbury wrote: »

Thank you for your very informative and understanding post.

To be honest and although completely unrelated to the computer upgrade, I have far too many other things to worry about at the moment (namely my OH's health) and I just don't feel that I can apply myself to undertaking something like this.

Computers scare me and if any little thing goes wrong I panic

OK, if you change your mind in the future, we'll probably all still be here

melbury wrote: »

I have found a Dell Optiplex for £169 and think I will go with that. It also has a 36 month warranty.

If you need advice on transferring data from old machine to new ...

melbury

googler wrote: »

OK, if you change your mind in the future, we'll probably all still be here





If you need advice on transferring data from old machine to new ...

Thank you.

I don't have a lot of data to transfer and will put photos and documents on a memory stick to move them over, which hopefully will be okay.

I will just make a list of my favourite most used websites and then put them into the new computer.

Also I think it would cost me at least £169 to attempt to upgrade my existing machine

Do all computers whether new or refurbished basically contain the same components? Just wondered because computers seem to be out of date just about from the date you buy them new. Are they all basically the same inside?

melbury

EveryWhere wrote: »

No such thing as a Technophobe.
I would have some respect for you if you at least tried. You could be done and dusted within an hour.
Not cross, but if you won't even try to help yourself, there is no point in me expending energy trying to help you. The ignore list saves me from making the same mistake twice.

I hear what you are saying and can only apologise for wasting your time before.

EveryWhere

melbury wrote: »

I hear what you are saying and can only apologise for wasting your time before.

Really no need to apologise.

It really is just to remind myself. The ignore function is a bit of a blunt instrument. in that there is no way to note why that person is on ignore.

googler

melbury wrote: »

Do all computers whether new or refurbished basically contain the same components? Just wondered because computers seem to be out of date just about from the date you buy them new. Are they all basically the same inside?

Pretty much.

They consist of;

A power supply - there's nothing to advance here. It provides power at set voltages. Newer PS's may have slightly different connectors to match newer motherboards, but development is basically stagnant here.

A motherboard - for the level you're describing, a few docs, some web browsing and such, to all intents and purposes, pretty much anything will do. There's no advantage to getting the most modern, up-to-the-minute spec

Memory - this improves in speed as time goes on, but for most users, there's little advantage in going for newest, highest specification

Data storage drives - Solid-state will boot faster and work faster than physical disks. Operating systems have moved from Windows 3.1 to Windows 10.

Input-output devices - CD/DVD drive, sound inputs/outputs, monitor, mouse, USB and keyboard connectors - see comments as per power supply

mksysb

melbury wrote: »

Thank you.

I don't have a lot of data to transfer and will put photos and documents on a memory stick to move them over, which hopefully will be okay.

I will just make a list of my favourite most used websites and then put them into the new computer.

Also I think it would cost me at least £169 to attempt to upgrade my existing machine

Do all computers whether new or refurbished basically contain the same components? Just wondered because computers seem to be out of date just about from the date you buy them new. Are they all basically the same inside?

If you use Chrome you can login to Google and save all your setting, which can then be imported on your new system.