A GOOD PC?
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- makina
The company i'm at wants to upgrade their PCs. they do desktop publishing w/in-house fierys using Quark 4&5. What ia a good PC to upgrade to and how is Quark 6.1 on PCs?thanks for your help. I'm a MAC girl myself.
P.S. a good flatscreen for editing digital photos?
- warheros0
it's all subjective to a point, but i am happy with dell.
desktops i presume?
you could always get apple cinema displays, hehe
- ********0
Go Dell all the way. Support, built well and cheap or possibly IBMs.
- warheros0
yes, dell has excellent customer service. always a plus in considering a new computer.
- mevsthem0
build your own.... 64bit AMD. you can use 16 gigs of ram with those with 32 bit u can only use 1gig that will work....anyway winxp64 is coming and so is longhorn might aswell be ready to upgrade.
- grafholic0
good flat screen should be view sonic.
dell is ok, but if you're going to do any heavy duty graphics and need a super good graphic card, don't buy inspirons.
their motherboard still comes with PCI slots, no AGP slots. that just blows.
- makina0
yep desktops. i would looooooove apple cinema display. have a 21 inch at home. but is there a good 19 inch people are happy with? People working in print have gripes about color...
- ********0
building your own will give you nothing but problems...
- jox0
16 fucking gigs of ram?? Shadaap
- makina0
Not wanting to create problems for these entry-intermediate desktop folk. Dell sounds good for them cause of the support. Viewsonic seems like a good flatscreen w/ good reviews. any other feedback on the flatscreens? Thanks for the responses.
- jox0
Here are some über-hot flatties http://www.formac.com/
Not sure how well they work with the dark side though
- makina0
those are super cute jox
- jox0
thanks I've been working ou... OH, you mean the monitors! Yeah, aren't they?
;)
- makina0
heeeeeheeeeeheeeee (^-^)
- RekabEkim0
build your own and save a crap-ton of money.
search for parts here: www.shopping.com
- k0na_an0k0
at work i'm on a dell.
win 2000
pentium 4
1.5g ramblah blah. running a viewsonic 20 inch flatscreen. it rocks. i don't handle large print files though. and when i do the thing chugs like a mofo. BUT, i'm sure it's because i'm pulling it off an old ass network that sucks balls. when it's on the desktop it kills it nicely.
the only issue i have is once in a while the mouse pointer will just shoot out and go mad. kinda wierd but i guess it's normal with dells.
it's like it's saying 'f you dude, i'm outta here' and slowly tries to walk away.
i'm a mac guy but if i ever had to buy my own pc it would be a dell.
hope that helped.
- Blueman0
DELL.. i have worked on them for many years now.. if there is ever a problem with any of the hardware components i simply call them up let them know that i have a problem with something and if trouble shooting doesn't help i get a replacement part with in 3 business days.. so really there the machine will always work.
- slinky0
i bought Dell laptop because i heard their service was great... well 1st hand experience has been otherwise... mostly bad experiences trying to understand someone from another country... i have not been happy with them.
starting to remind me of Quantex
anyone ever had a Quantex computer?
- grafholic0
i think dell is starting to build a new support center in the US - mainly using home-workers because of the complaints like yours, slinky.
dell laptop - i have had several different ones at work and they are known to have keyboard and mouse issues -- and when designing or programming, those problems can really make me irate.
- galic_gato0
Dell is an OK choice, but i would look more at the high end market. Alienware and Voodoo.
www.alienware.com
www.voodoopc.comI have been eyeing the watercooled overclocked PC. That is one sweet machine.
- abstrakt0
i guess i've been a real lucky computer user. No hard drives crashing, no problems with pre-configured computers, ho hardware crapping out on me... I hear all these stories about how someone buys a Compaq or something and it keeps crashing etc, or the cd-rom goes dead... I've had a Compaq, a Dell, an HP, two custom built ones, and now a Fujitsu Lifebook (not to mention all the computers I've had at my jobs.) I guess I'm lucky or something. I dunno.