When buying new computers, you should save money in peripherals (easily upgraded) and put money in what isn't easy to upgrade in the next upgrade.
RAM Memory, CPU, Motherboard, PowerSupply are what constitutes the identity of the computer. You can upgrade hard drives, change the screen, add graphics cards, etc, but changing the CPU or the RAM memory after a computer has had two years, is very very difficult since it is hard to match the compatibility (a new RAM module must be compatible with both the CPU and the motherboard) and old RAM memory chips get difficult to find, and ironically, it has always been the case that the older a RAM chip is, the more expensive it gets to buy new.
New M$ operating systems always push the memory requirements to double or more.
This is the minimum RAM these OS's needed just to install (to work well it
was much more, but always proportional):
Windows 3.1 -> 1Mb Windows 95 -> 4Mb Windows 98 -> 16Mb Windows 2000 Pro -> 32Mb Windows Server -> 256Mb Windows XP -> 64Mb Windows Vista -> 512Mb
Choose as much memory as you can, at least 3Gb (you won't be able to add more later)
Get a medium CPU. Never get the celeron/sempron economic lines (useless) and never
choose the top of the line CPU for office computers, they costs double and you won't need
more than 10% of their speed).
Choose motherboards/cabinets with many USB ports, choose one that has USB 3.0
ports if available.
Also see that it has many PCI slots. Economic motherboards have only two or three..
and it really complicates your life when you want to add a new Wifi card, a new USB 3.0
adapter card, a new soundcard (you can workaround a burnt internal sound with a new
soundcard).
Choose a motherboard that includes an onboard Nvidia or Ati GPU. Never choose
intel graphics. If you need more than onboard graphics (you don't) you can always
add a graphics card (maybe you don't need this except in one or two computers for
the few users that really need it).
Hard drive: choose 300Gb. For office uses, you actually only need 20Gb, but
300Gb is not expensive now, and the extra size it may come useful for when
micro$oft decides to push another bigger OS. Also, it may come handy if you dualboot
to linux, to ease a transition.
The rest does not matter. Chose the vendor that gives you the best warranty and the best price.
It is really really really pointless to see benchmarks or tests when buying new computers,
if you want the fastest, then get the most expensive, thats it.
If you are a gamer or a computer scientist focused on algorithms, you might want to optimize the best combination of CPU, RAM, Motherboard (and GPU and HardDrive). Otherwise you just don't.
AND... never buy just looking at the brand that assembles the computer, that's stupid:-) You have to look at the components that the computer has.
I agree. But as another poster said: if he is young, he can take the risk. The work doing OS development may look better on his resume than the one involving excel and macros..
After all, people learning to become scientific researchers do start their careers with very very low wages, expecting the knowledge and the experience as the main reward.
Of course, everything depends on his particular situation (whether he has/will_have a family to support, age, etc.)
That's right. They had such a long time perfecting what they do, that they never kill their host specie. Bacteria may kill individuals, but any parasitic bacteria that killed their entire host species killed themselves.
Besides, to compete, they must have similar needs in food or habitat or other limited resources. I don't clearly see how nanomachines might have the same needs as bacteria.
Viruses are not self replicant machines/molecules. They just contain the information to create more virus. The information needs to be interpreted by an infected cell and its enzimes. Some advanced viruses also contain information to assemble enzimes needed for the other stages of the virus assembly. But the same applies: if they run out of cells to replicate, they can't continue.
A very different thing would be nanomachines who have the full ability to replicate themselves using only inorganic or simple organic molecules from the environment. A big chain reaction is there not only possible, but very probable.
I think that a good idea would be to make nanomachines which are not fully autoreplicant, but that rely on limited resources to replicate, such as other non-autoreplicate nanomachines or nanotools.
I just don't understand why US needs more weapons?!?
Maybe this laser thing is just a stupid thing that won't work. But what I'm concerned with is the attitude you USA people have.. you are in a desperate run to destroy the world one way or another.
You are the people that want to rule the world, but to me you are just a bunch of guns_loving_freaks. You are like monkeys with razors. Hope one day you can mind just your business and be just_another_normal_country.
Your society and economy are based on selfishness, fear, competition and hate. Worst of all, you are trying hard to impose your ways to others.
go on and all you will get is hate and discrimination, you USA bastards killing everithin that moves or scares you, hope you shoot in the foot soon...
You are justifying the use of NAT to avoid the problems that a broken operating system such as Windows has?
So you are "fixing" windows network flaws by isolating yourself from the internet?
I can't believe we got to the point were a user just can't share a directory or a file through the internet without needing such viscuios ways of hiding itself through firewalls.
Did anyone but me feels this as a Windows design flaw, instead of a problem in all other OS's..
I use debian GNU/linux at home. I share what i please without needing a firewall. I only have a firewall for fun of researching on it, and i have fun stopping, starting it, stopping it for days, idontcare.
I regularly connect to remote Linux servers in other countries to do some CGI/php/perl work on them, and I notice they are not behind firewalls, and are online for months or more. This servers never met the blaster or whichnameitis worm.
What does the 135 port mean? WINDOWS RPC. So what the f**k do i need to block it? I laugh at the blaster worm.
open office means from a _running_ microsoft word, excel, etc. application, as opposed to OpenOffice, which is a different software, which doesn't have the vulnerabilities!!
be aware that intentionally or not you are tolling here...
I agree with you. And I also want to add: if there were only a single Desktop, a single look, Microsoft would have a single company to pressure and lobby and sue, and you_name_it.
Please, KDE and GNOME, keep up the good work, and don't ever put all the eggs in the same basket. If I have to bet which one will win or be better, I'd bet none of them, I'd bet both. That way we'd always win:)
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RAM Memory, CPU, Motherboard, PowerSupply are what constitutes the identity of the computer. You can upgrade hard drives, change the screen, add graphics cards, etc, but changing the CPU or the RAM memory after a computer has had two years, is very very difficult since it is hard to match the compatibility (a new RAM module must be compatible with both the CPU and the motherboard) and old RAM memory chips get difficult to find, and ironically, it has always been the case that the older a RAM chip is, the more expensive it gets to buy new.
New M$ operating systems always push the memory requirements to double or more.
This is the minimum RAM these OS's needed just to install (to work well it was much more, but always proportional):
Windows 3.1 -> 1Mb
Windows 95 -> 4Mb
Windows 98 -> 16Mb
Windows 2000 Pro -> 32Mb
Windows Server -> 256Mb
Windows XP -> 64Mb
Windows Vista -> 512Mb
( Take a look at http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-history-of-windows-system-requirements ) Bottomline:
The rest does not matter. Chose the vendor that gives you the best warranty and the best price.
:-) You have to look at the components that the computer has.
It is really really really pointless to see benchmarks or tests when buying new computers, if you want the fastest, then get the most expensive, thats it.
If you are a gamer or a computer scientist focused on algorithms, you might want to optimize the best combination of CPU, RAM, Motherboard (and GPU and HardDrive). Otherwise you just don't.
AND... never buy just looking at the brand that assembles the computer, that's stupid
Actually, a virus is not an organism.
Any living thing without a predator tends to be a plague.
I agree. But as another poster said: if he is young, he can take the risk. The work doing OS development may look better on his resume than the one involving excel and macros..
After all, people learning to become scientific researchers do start their careers with very very low wages, expecting the knowledge and the experience as the main reward.
Of course, everything depends on his particular situation (whether he has/will_have a family to support, age, etc.)
That's right. They had such a long time perfecting what they do, that they never kill their host specie. Bacteria may kill individuals, but any parasitic bacteria that killed their entire host species killed themselves.
Besides, to compete, they must have similar needs in food or habitat or other limited resources. I don't clearly see how nanomachines might have the same needs as bacteria.
Viruses are not self replicant machines/molecules. They just contain the information to create more virus. The information needs to be interpreted by an infected cell and its enzimes. Some advanced viruses also contain information to assemble enzimes needed for the other stages of the virus assembly. But the same applies: if they run out of cells to replicate, they can't continue.
A very different thing would be nanomachines who have the full ability to replicate themselves using only inorganic or simple organic molecules from the environment. A big chain reaction is there not only possible, but very probable.
I think that a good idea would be to make nanomachines which are not fully autoreplicant, but that rely on limited resources to replicate, such as other non-autoreplicate nanomachines or nanotools.
You could only tell that MS is compliant if you would be able to uninstall IE without affecting other MS apps.. And that includes the MSHTML control..
--heavyvoid
I just don't understand why US needs more weapons?!?
Maybe this laser thing is just a stupid thing that won't work. But what I'm concerned with is the attitude you USA people have.. you are in a desperate run to destroy the world one way or another.
You are the people that want to rule the world, but to me you are just a bunch of guns_loving_freaks. You are like monkeys with razors. Hope one day you can mind just your business and be just_another_normal_country.
Your society and economy are based on selfishness, fear, competition and hate. Worst of all, you are trying hard to impose your ways to others.
go on and all you will get is hate and discrimination, you USA bastards killing everithin that moves or scares you,
hope you shoot in the foot soon...
You are justifying the use of NAT to avoid the problems that a broken operating system such as Windows has?
So you are "fixing" windows network flaws by isolating yourself from the internet?
I can't believe we got to the point were a user just can't share a directory or a file through the internet without needing such viscuios ways of hiding itself through firewalls.
Did anyone but me feels this as a Windows design flaw, instead of a problem in all other OS's..
I use debian GNU/linux at home. I share what i please without needing a firewall. I only have a firewall for fun of researching on it, and i have fun stopping, starting it, stopping it for days, idontcare.
I regularly connect to remote Linux servers in other countries to do some CGI/php/perl work on them, and I notice they are not behind firewalls, and are online for months or more. This servers never met the blaster or whichnameitis worm.
What does the 135 port mean? WINDOWS RPC. So what the f**k do i need to block it? I laugh at the blaster worm.
--heavy
Pleasee don't confuse other people too!!
open office means from a _running_ microsoft word, excel, etc. application, as opposed to OpenOffice, which is a different software, which doesn't have the vulnerabilities!!
be aware that intentionally or not you are tolling here...
heavyVoid
YES!!! there are ways to reading HOTMAIL from any pop3 email client (yes, even from linux!!!) take a look at:
http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net
I agree with you.
:)
And I also want to add: if there were only a single Desktop, a single look, Microsoft
would have a single company to pressure and lobby and sue, and you_name_it.
Please, KDE and GNOME, keep up the good work, and don't ever put all the eggs in the same basket. If I have to bet which one will win or be better, I'd bet none of them, I'd bet both. That way we'd always win