I am desparate for some help. Not getting much from sales people so I thought I'd go to the real people. My current computer is a Gateway E-4000 with only 40GB harddrive, 256 MB RAM and a 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor. I have a jewelry business I run out of my home and maintain one website now and will be adding a second, I have a database and because it is jewelry, I use a lot of pictures. Plus I use Microsoft Office with Publisher. Needless to say my current machine isn't cutting it anymore. I can't even publish changes to website anymore without my computer totally locking up. I need something significantly faster and that will hold everything I need and be able to run more than one application at a time.
My question is what is the minimum processor (clock speed, cache, etc.), Hard drive size, RAM, operating system, etc. I should get and what would be the optimum? At this point I am more concerned with getting what I need to last me a while than with saving money. I don't want to have to replace it in 2 years.
I was looking at an HP Pavilion Media Center M7570N with Intel Pentium D Processor 915 with 2.8 GHz and 320 GB hard drive and 2048 MB of RAM.
Another option is the HP Pavilion M7680N with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 2.13 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive.
A third option is a Dell Dimension 9200 with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz, 4MB L2, 2 GB RAM, and 250 GB hard drive. Although what I'm seeing posted about Dells is not overwhelmingly positive.
I really do not want to build my own. I don't know enough about computers to do that which is why I'm asking for help.
Please help as I need this system ASAP! I'm losing business as we speak.
Thanks
My question is what is the minimum processor (clock speed, cache, etc.), Hard drive size, RAM, operating system, etc. I should get and what would be the optimum? At this point I am more concerned with getting what I need to last me a while than with saving money. I don't want to have to replace it in 2 years.
I was looking at an HP Pavilion Media Center M7570N with Intel Pentium D Processor 915 with 2.8 GHz and 320 GB hard drive and 2048 MB of RAM.
Another option is the HP Pavilion M7680N with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 2.13 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive.
A third option is a Dell Dimension 9200 with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz, 4MB L2, 2 GB RAM, and 250 GB hard drive. Although what I'm seeing posted about Dells is not overwhelmingly positive.
I really do not want to build my own. I don't know enough about computers to do that which is why I'm asking for help.
Please help as I need this system ASAP! I'm losing business as we speak.
Thanks
