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My wife needs a new Windoze machine. Must haves are SSD (who wants to wait 2 mins for a boot?), Windows 10 and....surprisingly little else. We'll use it for Quicken (2000 edition), web browsing, GMail, a bit of light Excel and Word and some fairly lightweight SQL Server (just on a local test d/b).

I figured £500 would do all of that so I was pleasantly surprised to find this on 'bay

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-NU...O-UK-Seller-/322801915292?hash=item4b287e559c

It's £325 to my door so well within budget. But.....if you were happy to pay £500 what would you upgrade on that machine? More memory? Faster processor? What?

Or would you save some £££ and get a spinning metal drive?
 
JonathanRyan said:
My wife needs a new Windoze machine. Must haves are SSD (who wants to wait 2 mins for a boot?), Windows 10 and....surprisingly little else. We'll use it for Quicken (2000 edition), web browsing, GMail, a bit of light Excel and Word and some fairly lightweight SQL Server (just on a local test d/b).

I figured £500 would do all of that so I was pleasantly surprised to find this on 'bay

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-NU...O-UK-Seller-/322801915292?hash=item4b287e559c

It's £325 to my door so well within budget. But.....if you were happy to pay £500 what would you upgrade on that machine? More memory? Faster processor? What?

Or would you save some £££ and get a spinning metal drive?
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That’s pretty crappy really, would probably do what you want but little else. I’d want at least 8gb RAM and a better processor - celeron level is not where it’s at, low performance and poor integrated graphics (would need to check highest resolution).
 
troutfisher said:
Also have a look at Dell http://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/deals/desktop-deals?~ck=mn they have some deals on at the moment
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Thanks. I looked at Dell. As soon as I said "SSD" it limited me to one mahossive £700 desktop and an Alienware. Now those are both nice machines but.... :)

Good shout to try a local firm though - I'll take a Google.

Nawty said:
I’d want at least 8gb RAM and a better processor - celeron level is not where it’s at, low performance and poor integrated graphics (would need to check highest resolution).
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Why? Would those give an advantage for the applications I mention? I don't want to pay extra to run some games I'll never buy :) BTW we're going to run it with an old 20 inch Dell screen.
 
8GB is the minimum I'd want as if you have more than a couple of things open (or lots of web pages) then 4GB gets eaten up pretty quickly and then performance takes a dramatic drop.

With regards to everything else then the processor / graphics will do what you want but it is essentially a low powered laptop so won't be up to much else.
 
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