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"New PC... bah"

I never knew choosing a new PC could be so difficult. Anyway, after deciding that, although iMac's look amazing, a PC was still the way to go.

I'm not going to bother to go into specs etc, but is it worth it to buy a new PC at the end of the summer?

I'm in Year 11 at the moment, just about to finish GCSEs. Now, bearing in mind I'm going to have this PC all the way through Uni too, I need a PC that's near top of the line.

So, would it be pointless buying it at the end of the summer, or should I wait until Christmas/next year/two years?

How drastically will PC's have changed by the three periods above?

Yes, your opinion is indeed important.

Thanks

So it would be avisable to wait?

Anything that saves me money is very welcome. :D

The next big thing in hardware is Serial ATA, which basically means faster hard disks. It might actually be worth your while waiting for these to take off and come down in price - they're just emerging now, so in 6 months to a year you'll be able to get a SATA machine with a spectacularly quick hard drive, and those ugly grey IDE ribbons will be ancient history for you :O) So if you can bear to wait it might be sensible, but computers coming out now are by no means bad.

ABIT NF7S NFORCE2 SOKA AGP8X SAT
ATHLON XP 2400 266 DDR FSB
512MB 184 PIN 2.5V 333MHZ
HDD PLUS9 120GB 7200 ATA133 IDE
16XDVD 40XCD ROM
CDRW * 52X 24XRW 52XR INT IDE
FLOPPY DISK * 3.5" 1.44MB DRIVE
AGP 128MB RADEON 9700 DDR TV OUT
CREATIVE AUDIGY2 PLAYER S/CARD
WINDOWS XP HOME (OEM)

Well these are my specs and future proof for my gaming.. but it depedns what you need it for.

Mine is coming onto 4 years old now.

It still works fine and handles everything.

Dunno what sort of specs to get at teh moment though...

I never knew choosing a new PC could be so difficult. Anyway, after deciding that, although iMac's look amazing, a PC was still the way to go.

I'm not going to bother to go into specs etc, but is it worth it to buy a new PC at the end of the summer?

I'm in Year 11 at the moment, just about to finish GCSEs. Now, bearing in mind I'm going to have this PC all the way through Uni too, I need a PC that's near top of the line.

So, would it be pointless buying it at the end of the summer, or should I wait until Christmas/next year/two years?

How drastically will PC's have changed by the three periods above?

Yes, your opinion is indeed important.

Thanks