Tydda Jon - Lonza Slough
jon.tydda at lonza.com
Thu Aug 21 03:29:11 CDT 2014
"Who spends $2k on a PC these days? " I did - in January I bought myself a new desktop, with the plan to not have to upgrade it for "a few years", so I went big: 32gb Crucial DDR3 PC3-14900 RAM, Intel i7 4820k Quad Core 3.7 HT (PC thinks it has 8 processors!), 4GB GByte nVidia GTX760, with Windows 8.1 x64, and some storage... cost me just over £1500 (~USD$2400)... got it mostly for my photography, but it's also a pretty serious gaming rig, and with any luck it'll be a while before I have to do anything to it... Although now I've put the SSD drive in my laptop, I'm seriously considering doing the same to the desktop :-) Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:08 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] How to revive an XP POS PC Good advice in general, Jim. Just one question: who spends $2k on a PC these days? I bought a pretty serious laptop (Dell, with 8GB RAM and 1TB hard disk) for $750 and that was almost a year back, so the same machine should cost less now. I plugged in an old 22" monitor so it now has two screens when it's at home, which is almost always. When I go out, I take the Acer Iconia, which is also more than a year old but back when it was new it was slightly more than $200. Arthur _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ________________________________ This communication and its attachments, if any, may contain confidential and privileged information the use of which by other persons or entities than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from your system.