If
you are considering buying a desktop PC, there's a confusing
array of options and choices. From souped up power machines
to cheaper machines that seem like bargains. It isn't
easy to know which one to get. Here are five things to
watch for.
- DEFINE
YOUR NEEDS
Decide what you are going to use your machine for. If
you are going to be doing just e-mail, Web surfing, and
word processing, you can get a simpler machine. If you
are going to be doing a lot of high-end gaming or multimedia,
then you need to get a more high-end machine.
- RELAX
IN THE STORE
Don't let the salesmen pressure you into spending more
on too sophisticated a system if you don't need one.
-
FASTEST IS NOT ALWAYS BEST Spending money for the fastest
processor will not necessarily help you, unless you
will do specialized tasks that make use of that spreed
-- most of us rarely do that at home.
-
SPLURGE
ON MEMORY & STORAGE
It's always safe to spend any extra money, on buying
more memory -- at least 64 megabytes and at least 9
gigabytes of hard disc storage space.
-
[See
my April. 2001 segment on desktop
suggestions]
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Sree's Site
of The Week
The Trip's Flight Tracker
http://www.thetrip.com/ft/home/0,2096,1-1,00.shtml
Ever
call the airline to see when a friend's flight is landing?
This site let's you track that plane right from your PC.
Enter the flight details of any U.S. (no foreign planes
yet) and up pops a map with a tiny airplane... that moves,
telling you where it is -- and how fast it's going.
Here's
why I picked this as my "Site of the Week"...
- It's
a neat way to keep track of specific flights -- if you
have a cousin on a cross-country flight, watch all days
at the little plane moves across the country, with your
cousin in it.
- You
can track random flights -- one way to pass the time.
- You
know more about where the flight is than people on board
do.
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And more...
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