+1, I look for the same price points along CPU, RAM and HDD, but nothing less than 2GB RAM these days and it has to be able to socket 4GB. No budget Celeron-class CPU's either.
Jon you're killing me, you mentioned "garage clients" a couple time and it messes with me as I have my own business and it's called "IT Garage"... Dave From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Minimum specifications? Pretty much the same here but I am now maximizing the RAM. I need/want them to last for at least 5 years and see many of my garage clients agreeing or even asking for this. I also use Jacob's technique on the hard drive for those same clients. Jon On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: I get this all the time. Someone will come to me and ask, "I need a new computer. What should I get?" I say it depends. Unless the person is doing some type of video or graphic rendering, etc... HD... SATA 80GB. If the need additional storage for MP3s or photos, just toss in a 500GB HD CPU.. I look at all the options and compare prices.. If I see a jump in price for the next fastest cpu, I go one below that. So, if I see the following, I will go with 3.2GhZ 2.8GHZ... $200 3.0GHZ... $220 3.2GHZ... $250 3.4GHZ... $400 RAM.. 2GB.. its cheap. VIDEO.. Unless the person is going to play games on it, I just use the built in video. -----Original Message----- From: James Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Minimum specifications? If you were specifying computers for a "general" user today, what would the minimums be as far as speed, ram, disks video etc.? Jim ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
