From: "Roger Millin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Many thanks to all who have replied, and taking one point from the thread........the recommendation for Dell.........yes, Dell would have been on my list as all the computers in the Ford empire (I used to work for Jags) were leased Dells and gave AFAIUI OK performance. They were changed every three years when their lease ran out. But, a mate of mine had a really torrid time with a home delivery Dell and was tearing his hair out trying to get them to fix it and I've recently read that Dell are in financial trouble. I didn't want to risk getting stuck with a new PC and then find (maybe) that Dell had gone bust. I'm thinking of an HP from PC World at the moment, always having had good service from my other HP products over the years. Nobody has yet explained the differences (if any) between AMD and Intel so I assume that they are just as good as one another for routine computing, just different manufacturers. Thanks again guys, Rog I used to install PCs in the home market and we had the Dell contract for a while. Nice PCs but if I remember correctly they had their own BIOS which was fine till you had a problem. Gateway were the best PCs we installed but they no longer sell in the UK (or Europe) . HP were fine. I have owned Advent PCs which were PC Worlds own brand but I only bought it after the store allowed me to open up the case and have a look at what had been fitted. At that time you got some dodgy types of modem :-) I agree with the others, go for a much memory as you can. If you are going to be using the PC for "important stuff" which you don't want to lose, think about having a second hard drive installed and back up to it every now and again (I use Ghost). Of all the back up systems I have used it has been the easiest to use and retrieve stuff from. Ann
