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Topic: Buying a new PC - advice please. (Read 1943 times)
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Gragareth
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I'm using my second Mesh make computer and again well satisfied.
Not included were speakers so using those from first Mesh. Sound is only listened to now and again so these small speakers ample.
The flat screen monitor isn't good for critical use with photographs, so using old Mesh crt monitor, and can swop monitors. Cannot expect a better monitor for the price paid.
Five USB sockets are useful. 1GB at least of memory too.
Gragareth.
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O1dgobbo
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Hi
Have you considered a laptop at all? We recently replaced a desktop PC with a largeish laptop for not much more than the price of a desktop. It has a graphics card, speakers, camera all built in and performs at least as well as its predecessor. The big advantage is the fairly compact occupation of desk space - much more room to scatter documents about. And if you do have to move it it's just one piece of portable kit rather than several bits and all those connecting wires. And you could take it with you to the record offices.
Good luck
Gobbo
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Dancing Master
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I cannot type on a laptop keyboard, they are horrible for a proper typist to work on.
Sons both have laptops to take out with them doing the family research, but one of them is a one finger typist so not a problem to him. and I don't see the point of having to connect a proper keyboard and proper mouse as extras .
I'll stick with a proper multi media keyboard.
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falcybe
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Hi, I bought a new pc in August, with Vista business. No MS Works but my brother in law has vista (perhaps premium?) and he has "works" so as long as you get Woody's version you should be all right 
Quite a few programmes I had which worked on ME (2 pc's ago) or XP (last pc) don't and will never work with Vista.
A printer my sister gave me when updating to Vista because it would not work for her, suddenly started working on my pc when I accidently plugged it in to the new pc instead of my old one. Obviously Vista decided to trot off and find an newly created driver. 
With Vista I have Windows Mail, which replaces Outlook express. I think I could buy an Outlook which would work with Vista. However although there is a programme included with Vista for translating old mails from Outlook or Outlook express format to Windows mail format, it didn't work on my pc. Rather than complaining to the shop, I just sent all my old mails I wanted to keep to myself. (As you can guess, I kept my old pc until everything was working on the new one) An alternative would be to open up a (free) account with, say, Yahoo which is quite excellent on reliability, quantity and size, and send everything there.
Open office programmes work just like MS ones, word, excel, access, powerpoint, etc. so you can create whatever you want, free of charge.
However I wanted to keep up to date with MS for work reasons and I purchased Office Home and Student 2007 with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. It is a tremendous learning curve getting to grips with the new way of doing things but I'm starting to love the new ways and wouldn't want to go back to the old.
And I bought an optic mouse, with wire. No clogging and no batteries 
cheers, falcybe
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