My 3 year old desktop is about dead. It says that it has serious errors. I've reformatted the hard drive at least twice in the last month, and had it up to working condition for about 2-3 weeks, and the Kernel errors are back. I've about had it with the thing. I'm about to go to Graduate School in the fall for Religion, and am wondering what to look for in a computer--laptop, desktop, how much memory I should have, what operating system is best, PC or Mac, etc. It will mainly be used for paper writing, internet, instant messaging, email, personal photo storage, iTunes music, etc. Thanks!
2007-03-27 01:57:46 · 7 answers · asked by GLSigma3 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
As always buy the most you can afford. No matter what you buy it will be obsolete within a year. For a windows machine, You will want a large hard drive (over 80Gb) for the picture and music storage. At least 526 Mb of memory (you should give serious consideration to going up to 1Gb, graphics programs require a lot of memory and when you start fiddling with your pictures you will want the extra memory) a fast processor (at least 3 Ghz) A DVD Writer and a good monitor.
Make sure you get a good virus/spyware protection program too.
My experiences with MAC's has not been good. For those that say they don't crash...they do...(and hard)
2007-03-27 02:12:36 · answer #1 · answered by kerfitz 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For what you have described a laptop seems like the best bet. Especially for school.
I just got the Gateway laptop with the reflective screen from Best buy and love it.
Here is what I would get based on what you want to do with it:
At least 256 mg of memory, anything beyond that is gravy, but 256 will more than handle what you have listed.
Built in WiFi (at least G or Super G, N is even better)
17 inch screen, or the widescreen laptops make viewing easier with multiple apps.
If you are using it for photo storage, make sure it has a DVD writer to back up the pics and other data with. Nothing is worse than losing pics to a hard drive crash or laptop failure.
Personally I like the reflective screen on the gateway laptops, but it is personal preference.
A big thing to look out for is an Nvidia or ATI on board video card. People will tell you that this doesn’t make a difference unless you are playing games, but that is untrue. If you have an integrated video it often times takes processor overhead to run the video. ATI and Nvidia (G-force) on board are the best performers and greatly increase the graphics and screen updates.
Hope this helps.
2007-03-27 02:11:27 · answer #2 · answered by v0ice0freez0n 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be truly elementary, yeah, the laptop is the "computing gadget" area, and the visual reveal unit purely shows the stuff. each and every so often you will get them jointly; usually I see them offered one after the different. approximately the two diverse memories you're seeing, the 2GB one is the computing gadget's substantial memory - because of the fact of that's what it makes use of to run all of its courses. each and every thing is going with the aid of that memory till now it gets on your visual reveal unit. usually 2gb is a first rate quantity once you're transforming into Vista. extra often you want 3gb or 4. The 320gb pertains on your confusingcontinual. And all that's, is the place you keep all your preparation (video clips, song, regardless of) whilst the computing gadget is grew to become off. so which you want to have a number of area there, 320 is a lot, besides the shown fact that it may pass as much as 500gb, 750gb, one million TB (terrabyte = 1024 GB). And no, the computers and video reveal gadgets do not would desire to be a similar kind, that's ok.
2016-11-23 18:54:39 · answer #3 · answered by barrick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-27 02:00:38 · answer #4 · answered by ojikutu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don know
ck out online dell or hp. taxfree, fast
laptops r goin cost more
get at least 512 megs of memory
for college i would buy a laptop
good luck n hope u convert the atheists on your long journey...
2007-03-27 02:02:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if your worried about viruses and other bad stuff get a mac they also back their puters really well and have a lot more secure networking than pc, they also play media and have great photo shop software. sure they cost a little more but the peace of mind you get is well worth it. btw I own a pc and it keeps crashing... macs don't do that much either. goodluck
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2007-03-27 15:38:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋