lomoto Posted July 18, 2006 Author Posted July 18, 2006 Right chaps .. I can see you lot know everything there is to know about these blessed contraptions Whats the best computer to buy at this moment?.. you know megathingys etc. bite sizes I could do with one that will copy DVd,s CD,s etc... and a nice big flat screen instead of the one I,m looking at now that stands 3 feet from the wall its that deep Quote
Chesterfield Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Im actually looking at replacing my desktop PC with a laptop. Flavour of the month for me is an Acer Ferrari. There are probably better laptops for the money, but I just love the design. Quote
lomoto Posted July 18, 2006 Author Posted July 18, 2006 Im actually looking at replacing my desktop PC with a laptop. Flavour of the month for me is an Acer Ferrari. There are probably better laptops for the money, but I just love the design. Not bothered to much about a laptop,as I dont move about much Quote
Liam's Z Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Right chaps .. I can see you lot know everything there is to know about these blessed contraptions Whats the best computer to buy at this moment?.. you know megathingys etc. bite sizes I could do with one that will copy DVd,s CD,s etc... and a nice big flat screen instead of the one I,m looking at now that stands 3 feet from the wall its that deep I recently bought phillips ls1600.... nice n sleek looking pc Quote
lomoto Posted July 18, 2006 Author Posted July 18, 2006 Right chaps .. I can see you lot know everything there is to know about these blessed contraptions Whats the best computer to buy at this moment?.. you know megathingys etc. bite sizes I could do with one that will copy DVd,s CD,s etc... and a nice big flat screen instead of the one I,m looking at now that stands 3 feet from the wall its that deep I recently bought phillips ls1600.... nice n sleek looking pc how much? Quote
Liam's Z Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Right chaps .. I can see you lot know everything there is to know about these blessed contraptions Whats the best computer to buy at this moment?.. you know megathingys etc. bite sizes I could do with one that will copy DVd,s CD,s etc... and a nice big flat screen instead of the one I,m looking at now that stands 3 feet from the wall its that deep I recently bought phillips ls1600.... nice n sleek looking pc how much? £900 m8t over the tinternet with pc world Quote
lomoto Posted July 18, 2006 Author Posted July 18, 2006 Right chaps .. I can see you lot know everything there is to know about these blessed contraptions Whats the best computer to buy at this moment?.. you know megathingys etc. bite sizes I could do with one that will copy DVd,s CD,s etc... and a nice big flat screen instead of the one I,m looking at now that stands 3 feet from the wall its that deep I recently bought phillips ls1600.... nice n sleek looking pc how much? £900 m8t over the tinternet with pc world Jesus Liam thats dear , I thought computers were getting cheaper , I was budgeting on £300 MAX Quote
Removed Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Im actually looking at replacing my desktop PC with a laptop. Flavour of the month for me is an Acer Ferrari. There are probably better laptops for the money, but I just love the design. Not bothered to much about a laptop,as I dont move about much Quote
Liam's Z Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Right chaps .. I can see you lot know everything there is to know about these blessed contraptions Whats the best computer to buy at this moment?.. you know megathingys etc. bite sizes I could do with one that will copy DVd,s CD,s etc... and a nice big flat screen instead of the one I,m looking at now that stands 3 feet from the wall its that deep I recently bought phillips ls1600.... nice n sleek looking pc how much? £900 m8t over the tinternet with pc world Jesus Liam thats dear , I thought computers were getting cheaper , I was budgeting on £300 MAX yeah you can get a half decent one for about £450 but you'll be lucky if it has cd/ dvd writer/ plus good memory Put it this way my pc doesn't even have a floppy disk drive anymore all bluetooth and usb Quote
lomoto Posted July 18, 2006 Author Posted July 18, 2006 Right chaps .. I can see you lot know everything there is to know about these blessed contraptions Whats the best computer to buy at this moment?.. you know megathingys etc. bite sizes I could do with one that will copy DVd,s CD,s etc... and a nice big flat screen instead of the one I,m looking at now that stands 3 feet from the wall its that deep I recently bought phillips ls1600.... nice n sleek looking pc how much? £900 m8t over the tinternet with pc world Jesus Liam thats dear , I thought computers were getting cheaper , I was budgeting on £300 MAX yeah you can get a half decent one for about £450 but you'll be lucky if it has cd/ dvd writer/ plus good memory Put it this way my pc doesn't even have a floppy disk drive anymore all bluetooth and usb I think anything I get now will be an improvement I suppose a good analolgy would be replacing Bridgestone tyres with anything else Quote
Chesterfield Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Tim, I get a lot of our office stuff from these guys: (they are in the same office complex as myself) www.aocomputers.co.uk They do some basic systems that will be fine for most needs, unless its heavy graphic work or game playing. They built me a pentium 3.2 server, with 2GB of DDR, and 4 200GB serial ATA drives for about £600+ VAT. You can also pick and choose what bits you want or what you dont. Very friendly folk, and they have a walk in shop at the office if you want to collect/visit. The expensive bit will be the TFT screen though. They start at around £100+ on their own. Quote
lomoto Posted July 18, 2006 Author Posted July 18, 2006 Thanks Chris will give em a try , I dont think I need anything as sophisticated as what you are suggesting, after "they built me" all the rest went straight over my head But I will give em a go Cheers Tim Quote
hanel Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Tim, I get a lot of our office stuff from these guys: (they are in the same office complex as myself) www.aocomputers.co.uk They do some basic systems that will be fine for most needs, unless its heavy graphic work or game playing. They built me a pentium 3.2 server, with 2GB of DDR, and 4 200GB serial ATA drives for about £600+ VAT. You can also pick and choose what bits you want or what you dont. Very friendly folk, and they have a walk in shop at the office if you want to collect/visit. The expensive bit will be the TFT screen though. They start at around £100+ on their own. I can vouch for AO Computers. I've been using them for 5-6 years now. We have bought around 500-600 computers from then during that time and am about to order another 168 this week. I'll let Oliver (the O in AO) know that he's had a mention on here and see if he can do anything for you. Small world after all...... Quote
lomoto Posted July 18, 2006 Author Posted July 18, 2006 Tim, I get a lot of our office stuff from these guys: (they are in the same office complex as myself) www.aocomputers.co.uk They do some basic systems that will be fine for most needs, unless its heavy graphic work or game playing. They built me a pentium 3.2 server, with 2GB of DDR, and 4 200GB serial ATA drives for about £600+ VAT. You can also pick and choose what bits you want or what you dont. Very friendly folk, and they have a walk in shop at the office if you want to collect/visit. The expensive bit will be the TFT screen though. They start at around £100+ on their own. I can vouch for AO Computers. I've been using them for 5-6 years now. We have bought around 500-600 computers from then during that time and am about to order another 168 this week. I'll let Oliver (the O in AO) know that he's had a mention on here and see if he can do anything for you. Small world after all...... Cool thanks for that nothing like a bit of networking, not to sure he will be impressed with an order for one cheapo computer though after your mega buy Quote
Hope4sun Posted July 19, 2006 Posted July 19, 2006 If you really only want to spen around £400, Dell is one option, there customer service sucks, but you can get a PC with flat screen for around that and its not bad for what you get. I build custom PC's for peeps from time to time, Below is a water cooled beasty i built for gaming and music mixing and video editting. Its got dual processor and 2 X graphics cards (SLI), plenty of memory to boot (forgive the pun ) I treat them like a car, so lots of shiney things lol, i.e: Bradied all the cables up Ugraded the water pump from this with this to this Coated the insdie of the massive case with black chrome Hid all the cables so all you see in side pretty much is this with a little red back lighting under the motherboard Put the plumbing and radiator in Then all fired up and running with a little neon and UV pigment in the coolant Quote
lomoto Posted July 19, 2006 Author Posted July 19, 2006 Jesus a blinged computer ,, I,ve seen it all now ,, Watercooled Get outta here Very Nice Quote
Beavis Posted July 19, 2006 Posted July 19, 2006 I build my own too, not quite a sbling as the one above, but very expensive parts and a nice 24 inch dell flat panel. We will soon have a custom pc section on here Quote
Hope4sun Posted July 19, 2006 Posted July 19, 2006 I build my own too, not quite a sbling as the one above, but very expensive parts and a nice 24 inch dell flat panel. We will soon have a custom pc section on here Thats the same case i built my beastie in , looks a nice setup mate Lomota Watercooled (well i use fliuid XP which you could poor into a TV set and it would keep running, its nonconductive) is just the tip of the iceberg, some of the phase cooled and liquid nitro are just Andy Quote
neo Posted July 19, 2006 Posted July 19, 2006 yup i build me own too, very easy once you know how lomoto, if all you need a pc for is going on the internet, typing and printing etc etc then a pc of approx £400 should be fine, think dell was doing some very good deals if you see some deals you like,post them on here and we'll see if your on the right track Quote
Neil Posted July 19, 2006 Posted July 19, 2006 Sounds like the answer lies in option 1. Option 1: Sling it out of the window!! (6 years, blimey what u running on there Windows 3.1 DOS ! Quote
lomoto Posted July 20, 2006 Author Posted July 20, 2006 Sounds like the answer lies in option 1. Option 1: Sling it out of the window!! (6 years, blimey what u running on there Windows 3.1 DOS ! I'll tell you what system its running now , Concrete , the bloody thing crashed again and even Chris's F8 button wheeze didnt work this time .. so I threw it out the window...Got to get a computer today Quote
neo Posted July 20, 2006 Posted July 20, 2006 d'oh bet the hard drive is trashed now don't spend too much on one tho Quote
Chesterfield Posted July 20, 2006 Posted July 20, 2006 If you do get a new on Tim, then yo ushould be able to have the old hard drive fitted into it asa secondary hard disk, and you can get the stuff back of it. Quote
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