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Spec for £500 needed

Tasocahtfu

Tasocahtfu

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Hi all,

Looking for a spec for a colleague, budget of £500, that includes the following:

Vista Home Premium
Black Wireless Keyboard & Mouse
Black case

We have an Earthwatts 500W PSU spare that can be used if any help, the one that comes with an Antec Sonata III. Already have a monitor so that's not required. The system will only be used for work (MS Office etc) and general web browsing/email, so no gaming. They will be storing lots of pics and personal files on it, so ideally we'd like to have two separate physical hard disks if we can.

Thanks in advance :)
 
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Hi Ash :-)

I think the below spec would be great for you (or indeed your friend) for work and general web browsing and so forth. I've also included you everything you wanted, and in addition a nice floppy/card reader for that little bit extra. If you didn't need it thought you can just remove it and save yourself about £20 although though it might be handy if he has personal photo's as he may using a camera that has a memory card and could just pop it into the card reader.

The hard drives I've included is one for a main system drive, and due to personal documents etc on the drive I've included a Maxtor One Touch so you can backup everything on the external drive very quickly and very easily (press one button, job done). If you prefered an internal drive rather than the external backup drive, then just remove the Maxtor One Touch and get another Western Digital AAKS drive.

The case however is in very limited supply so might wish to hurry if you wanted that one. You'll probably notice the lack of a graphics cards, but that's okay as the motherboard has onboard VGA and sound. Also haven't included a power supply, due to you owning an EarthWatts 500w Antec power supply which is a pretty good PSU.

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Just noticed, is there a reason for going for the 32-bit version of Vista, would 64-bit not be more future-proof?

Sorry if that's a really n00bish question :(
 
AshM said:
Just noticed, is there a reason for going for the 32-bit version of Vista, would 64-bit not be more future-proof?

Sorry if that's a really n00bish question :(
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Yeah you can pick either, they are exactly the same price however I just added the 32-bit for a placeholder... sorry, should have mentioned that in my first post.
 
There's no reason to think the 64-bit version is going to be more future proof. Given that you're going to be running 2Gb of RAM, I can't see any reason to prefer the 64-bit with it's inferior compatibility.
 
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