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Originally Posted by Sled
I'm looking for a new computer. Something basic with room to upgrade later. It's been a long time since I bought a new desktop and I have to say I'm a little out of the loop as far as what is the best product for what your looking to do
My wife has a digital SLR and is looking for media applications for photos. I'm not a major gamer but I do play some, I might get back into gaming if my machine allows.
The two computers i own now are Dell's but I have maxed out the limited upgrades I can do with them. Not sure if it is the same now but one of the big drawbacks of Dell was the limited upgrades you could do.
This is the unit I was looking at let me know what you guys think or if there is simular unit around.
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...51&catid=24014
or
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/prodde...09&catid=20215 |
You may want to look into a computer specific shop, rather then a big box store. You can usually get some good deals and the its your choice in upgrades. If you're looking at gaming make sure you get a mobo that has PCI-Express rather than AGP for video card slots. If your wife does photo editing you probably will want to look in to getting like 2GB of RAM for the machine just so it can run the photo editing at a decent speed.
As for Dells themselves, the are still pretty restricted in what you can upgrade to. If you really want flexability go with a custom built one from a shop like Memory express or something.