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"SR's PC's i have a better idea for selling them."

i was scanning through the latest SR mag and was reading about the computers and there specs, i believe that the mag is to complicated, not for me, but for average joe and joanne, if you know nothing about computers then none of the mag will really make much sence (i.e MAXX 4D P4 1800, someone who hadnt a clue about pc hardware would think to themselves "what the hell does this specifiation all mean, what is a Pentium 4 1800 cpu, what is 40 gb hard drive, what is 1 gb come to think of it") and so on but i think if SR made the mag more simple by bringing in "new spec" computers that don't tell you all the technical gumf, for instance if they were to do a SMALL BUSINESS computer and call it that in the mag with spec underneath then they will get more people buying them, same with a FAMILY computer, GAMES computer and SERVER computer.

DOES ANYONE ELSE AGREE?????????????????

Here are a few specs i would do
MAXX SMALL BUSINESS COMPUTER
CHIP: Celeron 1100
RAM 256 MB PC133
MOTHERBOARD: unknown brand but a "lite" version with onboard sound, graphics and network card
VIDEO CARD: Onboard 8MB shared (as it will not be used wholey for games)
SOUND CARD: Onboard (also not being used wholey for games and multimedia)
NETWORK CARD: 10/100 onboard NIC (for networking)
HARD DRIVE: 60 GB (for storage purposes)
CD WRITER:for backing up.
KEYBOARD: basic
MOUSE: basic
MONITOR: chioce of 15" or 17"
SOFTWARE: Windows XP home/Pro, Office small business Edition

and other spec computer's would be a bit like this but with hsrdware for the various jobs it will be used for.
ANY COMMENTS ON MY ESSAY.

C.b.

I agree with Phil. SR sells PCs to people who want a decent PC. Even if you know nothing about computers, you'd have to be a dunce not to realise the bigger the numbers the better it is. If you want it all spelled out for you with big letters and a guy in a red shirt with a name tag, go get ripped off by PC World and Packard Bell.

Hum, colbakes, or whatever his name was? New account?

I hate places that sell things like that..then again, I don't like being patronised, and I shouldn't be reading them anyway. Big numbers look impressive, and help to sell, even to complete newbies. Technical terms and big words can help sell stuff to the inexperienced, in a "WOW, that sounds impressive" sort of way (Quantispeed architecture on the XP etc..).

Could be useful to have a glossary somewhere to explain some of the terms, but most PC adverts manage perfectly well by exploiting the megahertz myth (should that be gigahertz myth now?) and its varients to sell to those who can be easily fooled by such trickery..

i was scanning through the latest SR mag and was reading about the computers and there specs, i believe that the mag is to complicated, not for me, but for average joe and joanne, if you know nothing about computers then none of the mag will really make much sence (i.e MAXX 4D P4 1800, someone who hadnt a clue about pc hardware would think to themselves "what the hell does this specifiation all mean, what is a Pentium 4 1800 cpu, what is 40 gb hard drive, what is 1 gb come to think of it") and so on but i think if SR made the mag more simple by bringing in "new spec" computers that don't tell you all the technical gumf, for instance if they were to do a SMALL BUSINESS computer and call it that in the mag with spec underneath then they will get more people buying them, same with a FAMILY computer, GAMES computer and SERVER computer.

DOES ANYONE ELSE AGREE?????????????????

Here are a few specs i would do
MAXX SMALL BUSINESS COMPUTER
CHIP: Celeron 1100
RAM 256 MB PC133
MOTHERBOARD: unknown brand but a "lite" version with onboard sound, graphics and network card
VIDEO CARD: Onboard 8MB shared (as it will not be used wholey for games)
SOUND CARD: Onboard (also not being used wholey for games and multimedia)
NETWORK CARD: 10/100 onboard NIC (for networking)
HARD DRIVE: 60 GB (for storage purposes)
CD WRITER:for backing up.
KEYBOARD: basic
MOUSE: basic
MONITOR: chioce of 15" or 17"
SOFTWARE: Windows XP home/Pro, Office small business Edition

and other spec computer's would be a bit like this but with hsrdware for the various jobs it will be used for.
ANY COMMENTS ON MY ESSAY.

C.b.