internet PC
I'm looking for a cheap internet PC, probably a Windows machine, sorry everyone. Mac's are just aliitle to much for what I need. I still am a mac fan, I have 4 macs. I'm not sure what I should get in this PC for the best internet performace. Any suggestions. I'm thinking
2.6GHz P4 800MHz Bus
512MB Ram
GF4 440 64MB
40GB 7200RPM HD
10/100LAN
XP PRO
16X DVD
52X CD-RW
This is about under 1000
2.6GHz P4 800MHz Bus
512MB Ram
GF4 440 64MB
40GB 7200RPM HD
10/100LAN
XP PRO
16X DVD
52X CD-RW
This is about under 1000
Comments
Get the cheapest Dell/Gateway/Hpaq with at least 800Mhz P3 or Athlon & 512MB of ram, any other specs they sell now will be fine. Things like a comfortable mouse, keyboard and monitor are nice bonuses though.
For US$199.98 you can get a box with a 1.2 GHz AMD Duron processor, 128 MB of RAM, and 20 GB HD. Still think you need more? For US$398 you can get a box with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor, 128 MB RAM, and 40 GB HD. Shop around and add your own combo drive for about US$80 and you're still well under *half* your proposed $1000.
You *really* don't need a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4 and a 64 MB GeForce 4 to surf the net and use e-mail and IM software. That's total overkill. It's overkill... to the max.
The only downside is that those things have really loud, whiny fans in them. You'll do well to make a trip to your local PC shop and get a $35 silent fan with a fraction of your saving. Subsidization owns.
Easy.
Ditch Intel(why pay more for just the internet?)
AMD Athlon XP 2000
nForce2 IGP(Integrated Graphics)
Case Keyboard Mouse
512mb Memory
XP
Easy as pie under $500.