What you need most is a very fast internet access. The size of the computer memory or CPU are unimportant unless you have fast internet. Right now I have 512 down and it is not good due to all the graphics etc now on most web sites.1.5MB is acceptable. I am running Vista Pro with 2G memory and dual processors. I had access to 7MB internet and the performance was great. Unbelieveable. I have been looking for some form of mini-raid and have not found any. What have you found?
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > Forum, > > My HDD died a couple weeks back. So this is a good opportunity to get a > new desktop. Does anyone have specific recommendations or good > experiences with particular pieces of hardware? > > I'm leaning towards a 64 bit system, dual or quad core, I will run Windows > (likely XP or Vista), and probably going to load up on memory because a > responsive (snappy) UI is important to me. I'm budgeting ~$1K. > > Other than that, my needs are simple, and mostly revolve around the > internet. The only heavy calculations I run are in J, and that's > infrequent. I watch some youtube and netflix movies online, and I play > music in iTunes, but other than that my medium is text. I don't play > games or edit video, etc. > > One feature I'd like to focus on is reliability, particularly in the HDD. > I'm not disciplined about backup. Maybe it makes sense to allocate more > funds to a mini RAID array than to Hz? Are SSDs more reliable these days > than spinning disks? Are they worth the extra cash? > > Since I have all the peripherals (a good monitor, keyboard, mouse, speaker > system, etc), all I need is recommendations on the PC itself. > > -Dan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
