Looking at a new computer ?

Bob, I think you picked a winner as well.
The speed of that thing is gonna more than amaze you.
I recon you might use it for 5 minutes, and just smile.

Cowboy said:

I still have no clue what I need, but I am seriously thinking about getting this HP model . I sure would appreciate any input on it before I pull the trigger. Thanks again to all .


http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7219716&CatId=5138

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That's cool! You will be top notch for a few days while it is new!

Won't be obsolete for a few days after you get it! LOL

When I bought the new Dell, it was obsolete before I got it out of the box!

Cowboy said:

Thanks PG . I just ordered it , hopefully it will get here before this one bites the dust.

I'm so sick of waiting 3 minutes for the smilies page to load when I click on more .

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At least you're getting some warnings of your old one dying.
Mine just DIED one night.

You're going to love having a new one.
Goodness knows none of us could live without being connected

tsaw said:

Bob, I think you picked a winner as well.
The speed of that thing is gonna more than amaze you.
I recon you might use it for 5 minutes, and just smile.

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Thanks Tom , Yup as happy as I was when I updated my memory from the bare minimum you can have I was perty happy to jusy have a lil faster SLOOOOOWWW puter , so I'm sure this one will be a new experience.

fogtender said:

That's cool! You will be top notch for a few days while it is new!

Won't be obsolete for a few days after you get it! LOL

When I bought the new Dell, it was obsolete before I got it out of the box!

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Thanks Foggy, I know what Ya mean that was the same way on the Dell laptop I got my wife . She's happy for me so she dont have to keep listinin to my bitchin anymore.

pirate_girl said:

At least you're getting some warnings of your old one dying.
Mine just DIED one night.

You're going to love having a new one.
Goodness knows none of us could live without being connected

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I here Ya PG , so far I have been really lucky with this one and had a warning everytime I had a problem and was allways able to bring it back to life .

The two I had before both got the blue screen of death, and I lost everything I had including tons of my photos I had scanned and have since lost the original pics, Now I have neither .

Hopefully I saved the last 12 years or so of pics this time . I just checked the tracking # and I will have my new one tommorow.

Well the Big Brown truck just left . I'm gonna shutter down and see if I can get things switched over and up and running . I recon if I run inta trouble I can post from my wifes laptop if she will let me . Catch Ya'll on the faster side hopefully.

Good luck cowboy.

Doc said:

Good luck cowboy.

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Thanks Doc , I made the trip. I still have some learning to do but got it going and secured and it is lightning fast . Thanks again to everyone.

Testing Smilies it used to take me 3 minutes to open .

Havin' fun, Cowboy?

Cowboy said:

Thanks Doc , I made the trip. I still have some learning to do but got it going and secured and it is lightning fast . Thanks again to everyone.

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I felt the same way when I got my new one.
However, I've YET to look into all the bells and whistles on this one.
The first thing I did was to download Avast and other things to secure the computer, then Yahoo mail.
Don't know how I could still find all the things I'd had book marked on the old one.
That was weird.
Then again, I am a computer ditz.

grizzer said:

E5200 computer brain is old technology 3-4 years old, RAM should be doubled to 4GB.

If you ask for a i3 or an i5 sandy bridge it would be quicker, no need for a separate video card & take less electricity to run.

Last point is ask for a SSD hard drive which is solid state, no moving parts and makes that i3 or i5 almost instant. A smaller SSD pricing has dropped to around a buck a gigabyte, you could ask for a second HDD conventional mechanical to hold movies pictures these have become dirt cheap for huge capacity.

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That harddrive with no moving sounds interesting.

Trakternut said:

Havin' fun, Cowboy?

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Yup' kinda . I been trying to get used to it while getting rid of half the crap that came installed on it , Norton was the first to go . I'm a little disapointed as to how many processes are running still ( 68 ) and how much memorys is being used ( 32% ) when I aint even doing anything . I also cant find a system restore, but I dont know if windows 7 even has one and no discs came with the puter .


Still trying to figure out what else I dont want or need, but its still 100% improvement and much quieter then my old one .