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Hello t-shirt forums, havent had much time to be on here very much. Hoping to get some help on what computer to purchase.
I use corel x3 and adobe cs2 illy and ps. Im using windows xp at the moment. I plan to upgrade my software aswell. Anybody have any good suggestions as far as pc's go. I havent purchased a new computer in a few years.
Hello t-shirt forums, havent had much time to be on here very much. Hoping to get some help on what computer to purchase.
I use corel x3 and adobe cs2 illy and ps. Im using windows xp at the moment. I plan to upgrade my software aswell. Anybody have any good suggestions as far as pc's go. I havent purchased a new computer in a few years.
Depends on your budget... high specs will be at a higher costs.
Any of the major brands current models that are in your price range should be plenty good. My self, I would only buy Dell, HP, Gateway or Acer (I have all of those running in my business and house and all are good).
i have a dell right now and im very happy with it. im actually on there site as we speak. i just need to get a new one because im opening up my shop and want to keep this one at home so i can work from here on weekends and late night when need be.
anybody know what this means
7 Professional Bonus-Windows XP Professional downgrade
i have a dell right now and im very happy with it. im actually on there site as we speak. i just need to get a new one because im opening up my shop and want to keep this one at home so i can work from here on weekends and late night when need be.
anybody know what this means
7 Professional Bonus-Windows XP Professional downgrade
It means that Microsoft knows a great deal of people do not want to give up XP yet because, to them, it is stable and reliable. Vista was such a load of doggy doo, that people are not ready to jump in with Windows 7. Microsoft wants to get Windows 7 out, so they have the computer manufacturers ship the unit with 7, but the license number will also work with XP if you want to down grade your computer to it.
That way you don't have to buy XP if you don't wan to run 7. Any XP disc will work for down grading when you use the license that came with the new PC even though is was loaded with 7.
As a side note, I happen to like Windows 7 and I do all my design work on 7 machine.
It means that Microsoft knows a great deal of people do not want to give up XP yet because, to them, it is stable and reliable. Vista was such a load of doggy doo, that people are not ready to jump in with Windows 7. Microsoft wants to get Windows 7 out, so they have the computer manufacturers ship the unit with 7, but the license number will also work with XP if you want to down grade your computer to it.
That way you don't have to buy XP if you don't wan to run 7. Any XP disc will work for down grading when you use the license that came with the new PC even though is was loaded with 7.
As a side note, I happen to like Windows 7 and I do all my design work on 7 machine.
thanx for the info. thats actually how i feel about upgrading
I know that a lot of people won't want to hear all this, but take a look at Emachines. They are pretty fast, and are about half the price of other manufacturers. Now they do use off brand parts and used to have a name for breaking down all the time. In the past 2-3 years, they have gotten a lot better about that. Even still, you can buy 2 of these for the price of 1 HP now-a-days.
I have one and its been running great for 3-4 years or so now. Bought it for $250 and it rivaled my $1700 custom built Alienware computer in terms of power. However, I can still add things to my computer and the Emachines PC is very much stuck with what it has.
As far as upgrading your software.... that's a crap shoot really. I've heard nothing pleasant about CS5 at all. CS4 was significantly slower than CS3. That is the same thing with Windows... Vista is a memory hog, 7 is just weird and also a memory hog not to mention its a security risk for about 2 years after they release it.
I don't know Matt, I upgraded my Intel dual core machine that was running 32 bit XP to 64 bit Windows 7 and the thing is like a brand new computer again. Boots much faster, runs much faster, shuts down much faster. Photoshop CS4 & CS5 screams on this machine, it is way way better. It may only be that now I can use all 8 Gigs of ram I had in the machine, but I am really liking Windows 7.
I am scared of the quad core machine running 16 Gigs of memory and 64 bit Windows 7. It is a monster, I'm afraid it might eat me!
Personally, if you have the ability to build your own I would go that route, if not I would find a small business in your area that builds custom PCs and get a quote on what you want. You'll get a better PC this way without all the pre-installed bloat (that you don't want or need) that all the box companies install.
Hope this helps.
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Personally, if you have the ability to build your own I would go that route, if not I would find a small business in your area that builds custom PCs and get a quote on what you want. You'll get a better PC this way without all the pre-installed bloat (that you don't want or need) that all the box companies install.
Hope this helps.
Actually Jon's suggestion is not a bad suggestion at all. All my name brand machines have been upgraded with memory, video cards, DVD burners, and in many cases, larger hard drives. I have scraped all my drives anyhow and only run the operating system and apps I want. None of the bloatware is on my PCs. It would have been cheaper for me to build them from the ground up than the way I went.
Oh yeah, I totally agree that just getting someone to custom build a machine is definitely the way to go if you are looking for reliability and total customization both long and short term.
However, I find that it really isn't much cheaper to do it yourself than to just buy from a company. If you get someone to do it for you, I have to imagine that it is even more expensive to get vs buying a name brand. But you also don't get the bloatware like has been mentioned and your computer isn't ready for the junk yard after a year either.... so its a coin flip really.
I don't know Matt, I upgraded my Intel dual core machine that was running 32 bit XP to 64 bit Windows 7 and the thing is like a brand new computer again. Boots much faster, runs much faster, shuts down much faster. Photoshop CS4 & CS5 screams on this machine, it is way way better. It may only be that now I can use all 8 Gigs of ram I had in the machine, but I am really liking Windows 7.
I am scared of the quad core machine running 16 Gigs of memory and 64 bit Windows 7. It is a monster, I'm afraid it might eat me!
Really!? We have had some problems with Windows 7 and CS5 using all the available memory and cores in our PCs. I'll have to go back and tinker with it again and see what we may have done wrong. Thanks!
If you want to worry about a computer eating you....
2 X 4.2GHZ 6 core processors
192GB DDR3 Ram
7 GPU slots - Up to 7 GB of graphics power
1500 watt power supply
Actually Jon's suggestion is not a bad suggestion at all. All my name brand machines have been upgraded with memory, video cards, DVD burners, and in many cases, larger hard drives. I have scraped all my drives anyhow and only run the operating system and apps I want. None of the bloatware is on my PCs. It would have been cheaper for me to build them from the ground up than the way I went.
Thanks Mark, In another life I built custom PCs for folks along with all the upgrades you are talking about, the important thing is that once you go down this path is that a lot of your components like the case, DVD/CD drives are reusable, you'll get a much more powerful power supply which is always lacking in big box store PCs.
Case in point....we have three PCs in our shop all are quad core AMD processors with 4 gig of ram in them, all of the cases are anywhere from 2-5 years old but are sporting 500-800W power supplies (I upgrade them as they fail) we upgrade the CPU, motherboards & memory every few years, since we all of our graphics are now PCI express we can reuse them as long as drivers are available for our OS of choice which is XP SP3.
The initial hit might be a little higher once you make the switch because nothing can be used over from your existing Dell or whoever PC except maybe the hard drive, you have tons more flexibility, tons better air flow for cooling, and a power supply that won't be way undersized right out of the box.
Honestly.....if you can use a screw driver, plug in a few wires, and load an OS and configure your hardware from scratch, you can build your own PC.....it's not brain surgery LOL!.
Hope this helps.
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Need to upgrade my computer, any suggestions 
