Win 11 Tower PC

Annie1960

GDB2222 said:

Annie1960 said:

J_B said:

Annie1960 said:

Does anyone know of any genuine Win11 tower pc deals? Ideally I'm looking for SSD alongside an HDD. I've been happy with Dell in the past, but am willing to consider other brands.
I'll be using it for normal home use, zoom etc, but not gaming.

Any suggestions?

Just had a call from a friend earlier asking similar, but no complexities like extra HDD

It's for their 'home office'  but will probably get light use.

Any suggestions?

An HDD as well as an SSD is not a complication - many off-the-shelf computers have this, which is how I know about it!

I noticed that the Dell business desktop site offers the choice of a 512 ssd or a smaller 256 ssd and a 1TB hdd. Astonished to see that the latter knocks £250 off the price. 

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/desktop-computers/vostro-tower/spd/vostro-3910-desktop

Does that help?

Thank you. Have you tried the i3 chip? I've git i5 in my laptop, and am not sure how fast the i3 is.

Annie1960

googler said:

Also, OP, why do you feel you NEED Win 11? 

I keep my desktop PCs for usually 6 or 7 years, so find it best to buy the most modern operating system to avoid problems later on. I can't think of a good reason to buy Win 10 now as I know that it will only keep hastling me to update.

Neil_Jones

Annie1960 said:

googler said:

Also, OP, why do you feel you NEED Win 11? 

I keep my desktop PCs for usually 6 or 7 years, so find it best to buy the most modern operating system to avoid problems later on. I can't think of a good reason to buy Win 10 now as I know that it will only keep hastling me to update.

You only get "hassled" if the hardware supports it.

If it doesn't (for whatever reason) then you won't.

Anyway the whole hassle thing is limited to an extent in 10 to an entry on Windows Update.  Its not the days of Windows 10 first came out and we were all on Windows 7 (easily the best version of Windows they ever made IMO) and you had all kinds of irritants to force the upgrade. to 10.

giraffe69

I bought a replacement desktop a few months ago. I also don't use it for gaming. I  had a Dell and considered one again but the prices seemed very high for what I wanted and I settled in the end for an HP Envy (with which i am very satisfied thus far). It came with Windows 11 and although I wasn't particularly dissatisfied with Windows 10 11 seems fine and the differences fairly minor. Some on this forum think Windows 98 is a step too far and denigrate almost any new Windows operating software and advocate switching to some flavour of Linux.

Annie1960

googler said:

Annie1960 said:

googler said:

Why not buy a tower with an SSD and expansion space, and fit the HDD yourself? Might be more choice available that way, might work out cheaper

Good idea, but I have no clue how to do that.

Trust me, it's easy. If I can do it ....

You can learn. There are YouTube tutorials and guides all over the web to tell you how. 

Connect a few cables, essentially.

I don't want to learn this. I want to buy a machine that has everything in it.

Annie1960

Bonhomie said:

Annie1960 said:

Does anyone know of any genuine Win11 tower pc deals? Ideally I'm looking for SSD alongside an HDD. I've been happy with Dell in the past, but am willing to consider other brands.
I'll be using it for normal home use, zoom etc, but not gaming.

Any suggestions?

Is there any reason why you feel the need to have an internal HDD? Don't pay over the odds to have it. Internal SSD alongside an external HDD for storage can do the trick.

That way you have a much bigger choice available to you.

I used to have an external backup drive called 'click free'. It was great, then they stopped making them. I tried another common brand and found it terrible as it saved everything in one place, and I could not see separate folders and files. 

It's better if I get something I can use easily, and from my brief look it seems common to have both ssd and hdd together.

debitcardmayhem

£399 + 40 for an hdd installed https://www.palicomp.co.uk/amd-cobra-review-ryz10

GDB2222

Annie1960 said:

GDB2222 said:

Annie1960 said:

J_B said:

Annie1960 said:

Does anyone know of any genuine Win11 tower pc deals? Ideally I'm looking for SSD alongside an HDD. I've been happy with Dell in the past, but am willing to consider other brands.
I'll be using it for normal home use, zoom etc, but not gaming.

Any suggestions?

Just had a call from a friend earlier asking similar, but no complexities like extra HDD

It's for their 'home office'  but will probably get light use.

Any suggestions?

An HDD as well as an SSD is not a complication - many off-the-shelf computers have this, which is how I know about it!

I noticed that the Dell business desktop site offers the choice of a 512 ssd or a smaller 256 ssd and a 1TB hdd. Astonished to see that the latter knocks £250 off the price. 

https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/desktop-computers/vostro-tower/spd/vostro-3910-desktop

Does that help?

Thank you. Have you tried the i3 chip? I've git i5 in my laptop, and am not sure how fast the i3 is.

I can see what happened. I selected the i5 chip, at a cost of £600 or so. When I added the hdd it changed the processor to i3, but I didn’t notice. 

Desktop processors are faster than laptop ones, so an i3 may be fine. Depends on what you need to do.

getmore4less

Why a tower?

Have a look at the micro/mini/tiny systems or small form factor

Hp 800
Lenovo m70q
Dell various.

The spec/gen of the processor is the important bit the i3/5/7 

Anything intel  8 gen or newer will be fine
For basic use you might want to consider energy footprint low power versions of the cpu will be fine.

There are good nearly new decent systems out there for under £300.


I got a second hand(like new) came with W10 sorted out the W11 upgrade itself.