[MBZ] computer question (what to buy)

2008-05-21 Thread Gary Hurst
ok, tom has virused up his P4, and now insists on a new machine. so rusty bought him one. naturally, i started crying when i heard about this, as i am still on P4 and G4 standard. sadly, the last p4 i bought was a 2.6mhz a number of years ago, so i ah clueless as to what to get today. seems

Re: [MBZ] computer question (what to buy)

2008-05-21 Thread Harry Watkins
Consumers Reports covered computers recently, if you're interested, I'll feed their info to you. I put a lot of stock in what they say, others don't. Let me know. Harry On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, tom has virused up his P4, and now insists on a

Re: [MBZ] computer question (what to buy)

2008-05-21 Thread dave walton
quad core Q6600 - 2.4ghz dual core E8500 - 3.16 Ghz The dual core will be faster as desktop unless you want to multi task and run programs that can run multi threaded or if you are running some kind of server application or games. You always want at least 2 cores because the operating system