What is a good mid-priced computer?
By jillmalitz
@jillmalitz (5131)
United States
August 21, 2008 9:31am CST
I am going to buy a new computer soon. I'm currently looking at various brands in a price range of $400-$800. I want to get the most for the money I will spend. I will be using it for the usual stuff plus I hope to be working from home so I will need to be able to have enough memory and speed to handle the work. What is your opinion?
5 responses
@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
21 Aug 08
I agree that the brand is not so important as the configuration. I have seen several Compaq, HP and Dell models with at least duel-core 2.7GHz and 3-4 GB memory and hard drives from 300-500 GB for less than $800. There is one thing that bugs me cause many of them are coming with 64bit processors rather than 32. I know that the 64 will be the way of the future but some hardware is still 32bit may not be compatible.
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
21 Aug 08
I would get an emachine. They usually run about $40 - with monitor. At one point both my husband and I had emachines. My husband gave his to my son when he upgraded about 2 years ago, that PC has since been passed on to his Mom. My emachine was given to my son when I upgraded last year. They are good computers. The older on is 6 years old and still running strong and mine is 5 years old. The only thing we ever changed on them was the video card because the MMRPG we were playing lagged a bit too much with the internal video card.
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@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
21 Aug 08
I have heard various stories about emachines. Some like them some dont. But a lot of people like them. Thanks for your input.
@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
21 Aug 08
Well I don't need a monitor right now. I do need to upgrade cause my old one had 120GB hard drive, 512 RAM and a Pentium 4 2.53 GHz CPU. My husband paid about $1500 including monitor more than 6 years ago. Now I have seen them a lot cheaper with a lot more power.
@Xdrowninghavocx (3117)
• United States
22 Aug 08
I have an emachine. And I can honestly say that it runs pretty smoothly. The one I'm using now was about 500 to 600 dollars. I think they are one of the ideal computers if you just want to use for surfing the internet and keeping files. I was hoping it would hold all of my Sims 2 games and it doesn't. This computer does well with games that don't take up a lot of RAM.
@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
22 Aug 08
I have heard the emachines are a good low end product. They compare favorably with acer and other budget pcs. Thanks.
@decimox (7)
• Singapore
22 Aug 08
mid end u can get
o does it include monitor keyboard mouse etc ?
-E8400 CPU
-8800gt/9600gt/9800gtx Grahpic Card
-MSI p35 neo 2 f MotherBoard
-Corsair 520W PSU
-G-Skill 4/2gb RAM
-Western Digital 640GB HardDisk
-Cooler Master Case Case
dont know total how much but think less than 1000$ bah
@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
22 Aug 08
Thanks for your input. I have been looking just at computers with certain things like duel core, a min of 3GB RAM and at least 500GB hard drive. I already have a monitor which works fine but it is over 6 years old. I was not planning to get a new one but I don't know if it would work with a new computer so I may have to get a bundle with monitor. At this point I will just have find something with the specs I want. If it includes a monitor that is a plus. If not I'll have to get a monitor later.
