On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Kent Hufford <khufford@atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> AS much computer as you can afford. Dell's are good.
Check the Dell Outlet: http://www.delloutlet.com
I buy all my Dell's there, and just got a Dell Studio XPS Core-I7
system over the holidays that's working great!
But the most important thing is to have a backup strategy! Mozy and
Carbonite are both good services for $60/year. Don't kill yourself
getting a top-of-the-line system, only to lose all your data. And get
a UPS for those power fluctuations.
I would suggest a PC with at least a dual-core processor and 3 or 4 GB
of RAM. Even a lowly Intel Core-I3 can meet those requirements. Or
look around for an older quad-core Intel Q6600 system on the cheap,
that's what I'm using in the shack now, and it's plenty fast, much
faster than the 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 it replaced. An Intel Core 2 Duo
(E6600) would be fine also.
Avoid the "green" hard drives, I was never happy with the performance
of the WD "green" drive. Get a 7200 RPM, WD Caviar Black if you can
affford it (the Dell above had a 750 GB one).
--
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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