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[Kevin Robb]

I was asked today by a friend to advise on what I saw as the minimum specification for a new PC.

It is required for Home office use...Whilst $$$ are important he does not want to buy anything substandard to save money.

His current system is a P11 550, 128Meg Ram, 6Gig HDD, CD, Sound, 56K, 15" Monitor.

What do you recommend?

Cheers

Kevin Robb

[tizzle]

First off, important to note is that any new system that he buys, he will see a big increase in preformance. The PII 500 just can't compare with many of the modern chips.

I think a good place to look at is the base model that dell sells. I just went and glanced at their site, and the cheapest I saw came with 2.53 ghz chip, 80 gig HD, 256 ram, 17 inch CRT and 48X cd-rw/dvd reader drive.

All this was only 299 plus shipping. I'm not trying to push dell, but I am a fan of their machines. The things that I would want to increase in that system would be the ram and the chip. I would think about 512 of ram and then look at the chip options. I don't know anything about the performance of the Intel celeron chips right now, but it would be worth researching. I would think that 80 gigs of HD would be plenty for the average office users, for word processing and the bit. Does he have any need for a DVD burner? I would assume no, but it can be a handy way to move around a lot of files.

If he is looking to save money, one other thing that I would look at is the refurbished section of the DELL site. I have owned three machines from it, and have been really pleased with them.

I hope this gives your friend some things to think about.

--Tizzle