What should you look for when you're buying a computer?

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"What should you look for when you're buying a computer?"

It very much depends on what you want to do with the machine, basically you need to look for a pc that fits your needs.

Computers are practical devices, which will help you in completing your daily tasks more efficiently.

Daily tasks

Of course every person that uses a pc has common daily tasks that can be performed with it e.g. checking email, writing a text document, to browse the internet, compiling your own cd's, listening to music and managing external audio devices (like ipods).

The power user

But if you are one of those persons who wishes to edit and create images with an heavy duty image editor (like PhotoShop) or editing video (and to do this at a decent speed) is better of with buying a more powerful system.

For those wishing to perform daily tasks only, a pc with the basic specifications written below will be most satisfactory:

- A hard drive which has a large capacity (300 GB min.)

- 1 GB of RAM

- A cd/dvd burner (for sharing photo albums, enjoying acquired music elsewhere)

- Common Ports at the front of the pc like audio and mic jacks, usb slots and maybe a multi cardreader (for digital cameras and so on).

- A pc which doesn't have a high end power processor but has a decent processor which runs at a decent speed (1.7Ghz) and is build to last.

- Integrated Sound and GPU (Graphical processing unit)

- Basic sound system (2 speakers)

- 17' inch LCD screen

- Mouse and Keyboard (wireless or not).

- An OS which suits your needs.

I chose this combination of components because they're aimed for the future. Written below is a short summary which further explains my choice..

Sizes of games and applications are increasing as they become more complex and collections of music and documents keep growing..
Today's applications (and OS'es) demand more RAM. People nowadays tend to do multiple tasks at once (browsing, making documents listening music and so on). A not too fancy processor and Integrated Audio and GPU devices will help in keeping the cost down of the pc system itself.

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