13 Mar
2011
13 Mar
'11
1:35 p.m.
I've not been paying attention to computer hardware for a while, and
all of the marketing terms have gotten away from me. It has to come
from Office Depot. My wife was able to get roughly
$650 for free, so
I need to get it from there. I'd prefer to build my own, but
money is
short and this deal is too good. It looks like they have HP/Compaq
(yuk), Acer, and Lenovo. I'm going to aim for a machine with quad
cores and 8 gigs of ram. I can spend a little more than the $650, but
not by much. My main problem with picking out a machine is that I
don't understand the differences in processors beyond the number of
cores. In the good old days, they'd list the processor speed and that
was all you needed. Now even that's not a good measure. Can anyone
suggest some must-have or must-avoid specs for these machines?