Doug Murphy
dw-murphy at cox.net
Sat Jun 11 10:13:50 CDT 2011
If you want a prebuilt box take a look at ZT computers. Costco carries them as well as Best Buy and some of the other big stores. I got a Core I7, 1 TB hard drive, 12 G memory for way under what Dell or HP wants for an equivalent machine. I like Costco because of their return policy. This computer company was unfamiliar to me, but I was willing to give it a try as I could always return if it didn't work out. Have had it now for 6 months and all is good. I wanted lots of memory and a better performance processor as I do lots of work in Virtual machines and may have 2 running at one time plus the applications open on the host machine. This machine does that very well. Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of rockysmolin at bchacc.com Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 6:26 AM To: dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com Cc: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] OT: Shopping for a new comp Dear List: It's time. My current development box is 4-5 years old. Dell P4, 3GHz, XP, limited to 2 GB RAM. And the HD is pretty small (<100 GB, IIRC - I'm not at home at the moment - in Chicago, actually), though it was huge at the time. Been a very solid workhorse but (like me) is slowing down. I think part of the problem is that I have more stuff open than I used to so there's some swapping going on. I could dump the HD, reformat and reload I suppose. My 14 y.o. wants a more powerful box, too and needs better graphics than he has. So I told him with the right GPA at the end of the year I'll get him a new box, too. All we need are the boxes, BTW - got plenty displays and external HD. I need speed, not a lot of graphics, and no need for huge HD storage. Any new box will have a big enough HD for me. But the new crop of multi-core processors is unfamiliar to me. We'll probably take a field trip to Fry's but if Dell has a good price I usually order from them and have it delivered. What would you advise? TIA ROcky -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com