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  PCs

Not long ago, having a computer at home was seen as something of a luxury.

How times have changed! (See the sidebar on the right to see how!)

Now, it's not at all uncommon for a house to have several computers, maybe including a laptop and a PDA! From home, you may be connecting in to your work network, giving you the flexibility of working from home. Or you may have access from your PDA to your inbox in the office.

  What we offer

We don't have a standard range of PCs, for two reasons:

  • Technology changes so fast that what's a good deal now will not be such a good deal even in a month or two
  • Everyone's different, and wants something different from a PC

Instead, what we prefer to do is to sit down with you, assess your budget and your requirements, then show you the best that we can do working within those constraints.

  Options

Here are some of the factors that you'll want to bear in mind:

  • What's the computer for? Simple requirements such as browsing the internet or word processing are far less demanding than graphics or video processing.
  • What software do you need? People often forget to include the price of software when buying a PC, and are then surprised that it doesn't include the quality of software that they were expecting.
  • What hardware extras do you need? Playing or burning DVDs and CDs, listening to high quality audio, using memory cards from your camera, PDA or phone - all these requirements will need extras installing on your computer so that it does just what you want.

 


  What's the norm?

Over the years, the recommended build for an office computer has changed massively - just look at this to see how much the last decade or so has seen a huge shift in what we expect to work with!

And what's more, you'll see that PCs are not only getting better, but also cheaper!

Date Configuration

Sept 2005

Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor
1GB memory
40GB SATA II hard drive
16X DVD+/-RW drive
no floppy drive
17" digital (DVI) flat panel monitor with sound bar
Windows XP Professional SP2
£700

November 1998

Pentium II 400MHz processor
64MB memory
6.4GB hard drive
32X CD-ROM
15" monitor and speakers
Windows95 operating system
£1,200

January 1991

80386 25MHz processor
4MB memory
40MB hard drive
1.2MB & 1.4MB floppy drives
14" monitor and speakers
DOS 4.01 operating system
£1,400

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