Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Aug 21 12:24:58 CDT 2014
For personally use, I would not buy a PC but when it comes to standard office environment, where there are a number of pieces of specific office software, stores of proprietary data, real performance (not only on brute force speed and on capacity, at all levels, but on high speed network traffic), is a real requirement then a PC is still king. If you are a road warrior or company of one or two, then laptops and other mobile devices become a practical alternative. I was also counting the cost of software and even maintenance when I estimated 2K per box. Here is a screen for real programmers and gamers. It is actually curved, can be run in series and its resolution is incredible: http://www.cnet.com/news/lg-flaunts-curved-219-monitor Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:08:01 AM 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