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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.

Nope, heh. I think that anyone who wanted flexibility over their machine would be far better off building it themselves from scratch - you could reuse some old parts, cut the cost of having SR build it and get a far wider range of products. Even a mix and match would only give the option of products SR stock, and as one of "us teckys", I'd like a complete range of components - actually putting it together yourself is hardly rocket science.

Turbonutter wrote:
> 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.

if you truly are amd man why do you only quote celeron and pentium. your really intel man arent you