Jimmy Neutron Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I'm in the market for a new desktop for the home office. I've always liked Dell, but am open to other suggestions after building a system on their site today. They don't seem to be the bargain they once were. I am tempted to get Vista - I haven't heard of any stability issues, just minor annoyances about peripheral compatibility and the goofy "allow/disallow" feature. Anybody like Vista, or should I stick with XP? I don't want anything too fancy. I'm thinking 2.8 Ghz processor and 2 GB RAM. I am going to go with a 19-20" digital flat panel or LCD. I'm keeping my existing speakers, printer & web-cam. I sepec'd a Dell today with these features + MS Office Home Office/Student edition @ $1250. TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 I have found a couple of HPs with AMD processors at good prices. Thoughts on AMD and HP desktops would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Swerski Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Buy an Intel Core 2 Duo-based Mac, buy a copy of XP, and download BootCamp from Apple's web site. You'll have a computer that can run two OSes and the hardware will last much longer than the crap that Dell, Gateway, and HP will sell you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I've always adhered to this maxim when buying computers. Set yourself a budget, then buy the absolute max machine you can find for that price. No matter how badass the machine is it will be obsolete by the time it gets to your door. Software will only get more bloated and take more horsepower to run. You can always buy wells and whistles to add to it later, try not to get anything integrated into the motherboard. It becomes easier to upgrade and extend the life of this box by doing it this way. What all of this means is that if you are even remotely intelligent and can work a screwdriver, you should build it yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polksalet Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Put linux on your existing machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Love Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 If you have a choice, I'd stick with XP Pro versus Vista. Does Vista have anything that you want versus XP? I've not seen anything that would make me wish to change, even if it were for free. Let the early adopters work out the bugs in Vista for the next couple of years, then get it with your next computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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