Buying a computer
Jan. 12th, 2004 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothMy desktop isn't fast enough to play DVDs. I think I want to buy a computer. Whole. I'll dual boot between XP and Linux; I guess I want about half a gig of memory and a nice big hard drive (120Gb or more). It doesn't have to be fast, you can't buy one that isn't way fast enough these days. I don't need a monitor; I already owe ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
conflux £50 for a very nice one (or did I ever pay you? If not, are you at Bisexual Underground tomorrow?)
Who do you prefer to buy from? Recommendations so far include
http://www.scan.co.uk/
and of course http://www.dell.co.uk/ (but they insist on throwing in a monitor and speakers and suchlike)
UPDATE: Two people so far have suggested I buy an Apple. No further discussion of this possibility is needed. Thank you. Update to the update - the same goes for PS2s, thanks...
(PS I didn't do what I said I'd do - I went to Alternator. Blame goth peer pressure. Had a damn fine night though!)
conflux £50 for a very nice one (or did I ever pay you? If not, are you at Bisexual Underground tomorrow?)Who do you prefer to buy from? Recommendations so far include
http://www.scan.co.uk/
and of course http://www.dell.co.uk/ (but they insist on throwing in a monitor and speakers and suchlike)
UPDATE: Two people so far have suggested I buy an Apple. No further discussion of this possibility is needed. Thank you. Update to the update - the same goes for PS2s, thanks...
(PS I didn't do what I said I'd do - I went to Alternator. Blame goth peer pressure. Had a damn fine night though!)
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Date: 2004-01-12 11:53 am (UTC)If you are, I would really appreciate it. I don't believe the problem is in the memory - memory faults tend to lead to distinctive compile failures on linux boxes and I haven't had any of those.
If you're up for helping me, could you send me an email or talk to me when I see you? I'm sure Paul's getting pissed off enough with the O/T comments here...