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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.
> 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.
Heh, SoundS VERY familier.
I shall Never Ever go to PC World, Never buy from them never anything.
I hate them, and they crappy computers. They they sell to 1st time buyers (Like my parents and me) by saying
"Ohh this new Cyrix chip is amazing"
"Its really fast at 300mhz"
(Its actually only 233)
"Its a great deal"
(Ha, shut up PC Man)
"There is plenty of room for expansion"
(What 3 PCI slots, one ram slot and no AGP Slots? Are you mad?)
"Thank you come again"
(Yeah, this time im gonna bring a gun)
Never, EVER buy from them. Use SR or build your own. Dammit I hate them.
They should do a pick and mix for us teckys, for instance
Athlon Motherboards
Abit kt7a-raid £???
Asus a7v133 £???
Asus a7v133-raid £???
Pentium Motherboards
Chaintech 6aja4 £???
Etc etc
Video card
Geforce 2 mx 400 64mb AGP £??
Geforce 3 £???
Hard drive
Ibm deskstar 75 gxp 60GB £???
Ibm deskstar 120gxp 80GB £???
SO on and so forth
Get the picture?
i think this would also be a great idea, then you could have the spec you want and can afford, You guys gotta agree with me on this one.
the only probelm is that the pc as a whole will be more expensive but you will know what all the parts are and how good they are.
AGREE??????
C.b.
> you guys are not getting the point of the post, imagine if you know nothing at
> all about computers then MHZ means nothing to you all you would wanna know will
> the system do what you want it to do.
Renaming the computer to Maxx Small Business hardly solves that problem does it? I believe even the most computer illerate will seek some kind of information before purchasing a computer (even if its just a sales person in PC world) anyway. Simply there aren't many people who can afford to spend up to a thousand pound so blindly.
But anyway, as I post this at the top of the window theres a advert for SR's PC range. To quote it, "HUGE MAXX PCs", notice the words, big powerful words. MAXX Small Business somehow is just contradictory to the strategy they have for marketing and selling their PCs I think. Also you have to consider who their target audience are, little point in offering MAXX Business, MAXX Server etc. etc. if they don't advertise to people who will want these machines. I don't know who SR consider as their target market but it doesn't appear to be first time buyers does it? Another point is, it can be quite difficult (and dangerous) to pigeon hole your computers like that. I mean what is a games machine spec wise? I've got a p3-650 and an original GeForce card, it plays most games adequately at lower resolutions.
Something else I just noticed, most of their range have quite similar specs, perhaps they aren't interested in the added cost/hassle of building PCs for specific tasks.
-G
c.b.
Not always true that big numbers are better though, but new buyers will believe it, hence Intel selling by having bigger numbers and AMD compensating using their PR system..
who is colbakes ?
c.b.
my name is corban barkley