hows this computer?

[Haus]

I dont need something really powerful. just for internet, porn ect haha

so is this a good choice? I want a desk top but dont really want the tower so i thought this would be good. thoughts?

http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/rts_desktop/rts_desktop/1/storefronts/QW800AA%23ABA?aoid=35252

 

[Tuffdisc]

If its for internet browsing and office applications, which I suspect it is, then I would say its fine, but for gaming I would up the ante a bit

I would think it would be sufficient for the odd photo editing but I dunno, I have 6Gb though a quad-core processor, it is fine. That computer is only a dual processor. Don't bother with Norton's even with the free trial, but that is up to you

 

[sammykinzz]

Ford the price i reckon its awesome!! might look at this for myself!

 

[Haus]

If its for internet browsing and office applications, which I suspect it is, then I would say its fine, but for gaming I would up the ante a bit

I would think it would be sufficient for the odd photo editing but I dunno, I have 6Gb though a quad-core processor, it is fine. That computer is only a dual processor. Don't bother with Norton's even with the free trial, but that is up to you

oh yeah no gamer here. just internet, view vids, pics. just something basic. and yeah i dont like norton. ill stick with avg

 

[Darrell]

That's plenty for what you need man. I doubt your system will ever utilize 4GB of RAM if you're just doing web stuff, and videos.

 

[Haus]

That's plenty for what you need man. I doubt your system will ever utilize 4GB of RAM if you're just doing web stuff, and videos.

my stystem now doesnt even utilize the 2gb i have lol so i think ill buy it

 

[AnitaBeer]

All in one systems have never been my thing, but that thing only comes with 4 megs of memory, which today isn't much. There is room for a little bit more though. Also vid graphics is integrated so if you plan on attempting gaming it's not going to be up to par at all.

Porn, sure, but if you want that high def quality on up front vajayjay scenes, it's prob not going to be that hot either.

Basic uses, surfing, email, watching vids...sure will do the trick.

 

[Haus]

decided on this one. lol http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...3665/loc:3&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=5168964

 

[Pumpkin]

I don't know anything about computers but I will say this...it's pretty!

 

[teh_fuzz]

I am with anitabeer on this one... integrated everything is NOT good at all!

The thing with PCs is you may never know what you may get interested on in a few weeks, months, or down the road! As for its specs, I would go with a quad core over the dual core, as far as RAM go it depends on what Operating system you plan on using.

anything 64bit will eat up resources like a motherfucker! so 4GB while sufficient it isn't going to cut it (at least it wouldn't for me)
anything 32bit cant handle anything over 4GB so that would be your cap.

Everyone always seems to undermine their PC needs, but then when they load their PC with 4000 photos and wonder why it takes so long for it to load them up or there is no more room in their hard drive.

Whatever your BASIC needs are, I would at least double them...

 

[DavidRpnk]

For browsing the internet, you can get and amazing computer for as low as $200...

 

[beyondthepale]

If all you want to do is watch videos, look at pics, and screw around on the net, then a Pentium III with Windows XP, a GB of RAM, and a nice video card is more than enough. Those people who keep saying that you need tons of this and that and the other... you guys are forgetting that HD video has been around FOR COMPUTERS since the days of Windows 98. We've had video cards that can go way, way over 1080p and monitors that can support it for almost 15 years now.

Those kind of PCs and monitors can be found on eBay and Craigslist for less than a third of the price of the HP machines listed on the thread, and with a tenth of the horsepower most everyone else has said you need. It requires next to nothing to decode and render an XVID move, most flash files, or general crap. The only thing I can think of that requires a ton of power to do that he's talked about would be a movie encoded in MKV, but who actually uses that garbage other than KDE developers?

The catch is, you must be sure that ALL you want to do is what you said. Anything else is going to require a re-evaluation of the machine needed and could cost considerably more.