If you are the DIY kind, I upgraded to an Intel i7 2600k, 1.5 TB HDD, nice new case, 8 gigs of 1866 RAM, good Gigabyte motherboard and a bluray burner for < $800
I overclocked the CPU from 3.4 to 4.1 and the RAM from 1866 to 2133. The Gigabyte motherboard bios made it very easy. I am only using stock air cooling and the thing is rock solid stable. This setup is going to have a long useful life. If you aren't the DIY kind, all I can say is that HP has excellent support. I have never owned a brand name desktop, but they went out of their way to help me with my laptop battery issues. As for Windows XP/Vista/7/8 ... I never liked Vista all that much. It was shiny, but bloated. 7 is way better. XP was fine when it was all there was, but now I feel a little annoyed every time I have to use it. Macs ... I have to use one for a design class I am taking. I'm sure they are fine machines, but the buggar is driving me insane. I feel like the time in college when I was taking an into to programming class and they parked us in front of a Sparkstation II running Sun OS and said, "have at it." O_o It is an alien device that both confuses and frightens me. The construction is pretty sweet though. The entire computer is in the monitor, which is huge by itself .. 24-26". Oh, and that single button mouse that still manages to right click (sometimes) can burn in hell. On 9/6/2011 10:00 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > Actually, I am about to buy a new PC and have been thinking about what I > need on it. I still have enough client work / programs that require Windows > that I have to keep one around. I really don't want to buy a PC as a > secondary machine and then find myself fighting it all the time because of > fancy new features that get in my way. So this conversation is of interest. > > Plus, since when did we stop arguing for argument's sake on this list? :) > > -Cameron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:342256 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
