[Closed] pc help

Can I be the first to say...buy a mac?

Failing that...I'd reckon that you've had a decent life from a £300 latop so any life you can get out of it now is a bonus.

Anyway, what's wrong with it? Are you trying to use newer programs or is it just suffering from PC rot?

depends what you want to use it for - web browsing and ms office should be fine with what you have although more memory always helps

also if you have the original disks well worth rebuilding the machine which will clear all the crap up that you have gathered over the past few years

but if you are into gaming and/or photo editing you would benefit from a multi core processor so it would be worth getting a new machine

whether anything would be as future proof as you ask is a big call - who knows what stuff we will want machines to do in five years time...

What do you use it for? Adding another Gig and maybe a format and rebuild could give it a shot in the arm. What's the CPU socket, can you swap out the Pantium for something a bit more thruchy?

Can I be the first to say...buy a mac?

Yes, that's clearly going to be the cheapest option.

Does it have to be a laptop?

I thought the question was 'what would I need to spend'? Rather than 'what's the cheapest option'?

As an unashamed 'mac fanboi' I suggested a mac. Apologies for any offence caused.

roadie_in_denial - Member
[b]I thought the question was 'what would I need to spend'?[/b] Rather than 'what's the cheapest option'?

As an unashamed 'mac fanboi' I suggested a mac. Apologies for any offence caused.

Not interested in Apple.

It's a desktop, I am interested in a laptop for portability (not having to have a desk set up for it - limited space at home but too much time spent online 😳 )

I want to hit the £/power curve at its peak and get another 6 years out of this badboy, and dedicate this one to NAS/streaming.

It gets used for surfing, bit of pic stuff (nothing fancy, no RAW), bit of WP (google docs so far).

OK. It's just that I have an old PC I need to get rid of. It's a Dell 5150 with 2 x Pentium4 3.2GHz but only 1GB of RAM.

You could do worse than have a look in tescos...I got a toshiba laptop from them last month for around £300 and it's exceeded my expectations of what to expect from a pc laptop.

Have you tried running it on Windows 7?
W7 requires much less processing power than previous operating systems. Not done it myself but loads of my friends have installed W7 on old machines and its brought them back to life.
I would wipe the PC totally dry and try running it on W7. Could easily buy you a few years and its probably the cheapest option.
For the basic functions you require you don't need a high power machine.
PC's accumulate background running software and get slow after a while. Personally I do a clean install once per year and its like having a new machine.
Old Macs are slow too so its not a reasonable answer. Its just the shortcut answer that all Mac users give to any question computer related cause they don't know any better.

Windows 7 = costage of £££ Shirley?

Oh and of course Mac users = better than the rest of us.

£90 for Windows 7

Exactly.

Actually I was a PC user, I switched to Mac 18 months ago and we delighted with it, I now have a mac and a PC which runs on windows 7 (at the moment).

Based on my experiences of both systems I would recommend a mac for more or less everything based purely on performance and experience.

I've used Macs, am not interested.

Sorry Al...was busy getting irate with other posters...that might just be my first thread hijack...apologies. I'll slide away now.

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