Hey Lopaka! I'm not sure how much that PC would cost at Best Buy, but take a look at ecost.com before you buy it. They have some great deals over there generally!
Take care, ---- Julian (Sabre) On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Stan Zaske <[email protected]> wrote: > Build it yourself and maintain it yourself. I doubt Best Buy has your > "Best" hardware needs in mind. > > > > On 12/11/2009 8:34 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > >> I'm thinking of buying an off-the shelf PC for my office needs. I don't >> have big needs there, but I want to get my stuff moved over quick. >> >> I see Best Buy has an HP with this AMD Athlon™ II X4 Quad-Core Processor >> inside. Runs at 2.7 GHz. Boy...this seems like a down grade of sorts, as >> I'm running a P4 at 3.6 GHz now. But this HP has 6 GB ram and comes with >> 64-bit Win7 home premium. That ought to be worth something, right? >> >> I could reformat and load Win7 on this machine, but I'm then limited to >> 32-bit windows and thus can't even address extra memory. And no Win XP mode, >> either. >> I need to address this office PC situation quickly as the Windows on here >> is hosed. This AMD ought to be good for non-gaming, non-HD moving making, >> but perhaps heavy multitasking and probably running Matlab, right? >> One advantage is with 4 cores I can run parallel matlab on 64-bit windows >> and actually used the extra RAM. So that seems like a big plus. Is the AMD >> a number-crunching pig compared to an Intel Quad Core? >> >> >
