Yeah I bought a dell because I bought it with coupons. I am not sure if I will want to do it again. First thing after getting a dell, reformat the HD. It comes with AOL, EarthLink, Dell Alert and all the crap you never use. Besides, it's XP Home. I actually sold that 40GB HD comes with it (with the pathetic 2MB cache) and put a 250GB SATA HD. Then, the performance is just medium. For sure no problem on word processing and web surfing. When comes to editing video, even with Hyperthreading CPU, I got jerky preview. Besides, when it comes to render Slideshow, the mouse is not quite moving. Yeah, Dell tech support.. your call will be routed to India and have to talk to people with very thick and strong account. No offense to Indian people. It's just English is not my first language. It's very difficult for me to hear and understand from the conversation. It get so frustrated. For my next PC, I will get one of those gaming PC although I don't play any PC games. Taky ----- Original Message ----- From: John Koehler To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 4:11 AM Subject: RE: [AP] What PC should I buy?
I would definitely also consider getting a Dell. At www.dell.com you can choose your own configuration. I suspect that a speed of 3 gHz and at least 1 or 2 gigs of memory will allow you to take advanage of all the bells and whistles in any program. Dell gives you free support for one year. Just a thought. John --- Johnny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently put together 2 systems for 2 editing > company, both loved it, > it's not the fastest but it does the job for them, > the config was > pentium 4 3.2ghz HT with 1gig 3200 RAM, 1 80gig c: 2 > 250gig (d and e), a > dvd dual layer burner, matrox x10 suit (with > premiere pro 1.5, encore > dvd 1.5 and audition 1.5), roland ma8 speakers, > regular keyboard, > optical mouse, a tv/monitor, and a 19" monitor, oh, > nvidia video card > (the latest one)... They liked it so much they asked > me to put another > one together... I think best is look for people that > knows about video > editing in your town that can help you put a system > together. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffery J. Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [AP] What PC should I buy? > > > > Believe it or not, I've been doing editing on my > Sony VAIO laptop, > with 512 MB, and 80 GB. But, I want to buy a > desktop that I can use > strictly for editing. Does anyone have any > suggestions? I like > Sony VAIO. What do I need to put in this PC to > really get the best > of Premiere that I can. Anyone....? > > ---Believe it or not, you need to GET AWAY from > "proprietary" systems. > Check out http://www.boxxtech.com/asp/default.asp > or http://www.1beyond.com/ for starters. > If those are a little pricey for you, still consider > staying away from > major manufacturer "systems" and focus instead on > major motherboard > manufacturers instead. > > The trouble with proprietary systems is that they > introduce tech that > isn't always compatible across the board with > anything and everything. > > Jeffery Haas > freelance shooter and editor > Dallas > > -- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 7.0.279 / Virus Database: 264.12.6 - > Release Date: 10/29/2004 > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/ADr1lB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
