Currently I have Dell laptop purchased late 2007 and it has been remarkably reliable with it's small SS HD. Same for the Win XP with Office 2003. The only complaint i have about the Dell is the obvious Chinese sheet metal work, and the appalling sound quality of the built in speakers. Neither is a big deal.
However, XP is no longer supported, I'm having great difficulties with watching videos (as documented in another thread), and even ignoring those two things there will come a time reasonably soon when I should replace the now 8 year old technology. Furthermore, NBN will be here in around 12-15 months and it would probably be wise to have hardware and software capable of utilising it properly.
WHAT I USE IT FOR:
Websurfing
ABC iView and other videos (e.g. Youtube)
Email (Gmail, but also a tiny amount of Outlook)
A big amount of Excel (and some of the sheets can be quite large 500-1000Kb). Many of these have VB macros written into them
Creating PDFs with PDFCreator
A miserably small amount of Word usage (prefer to do documents in Excel anyway)
That's about it.
WHAT I DON'T USE IT FOR:
Gaming of any sort apart from Spider Solitaire
WHAT I MIGHT USE IT FOR:
Largely unknown, but NBN will make some big changes to they way we do things (I hope).
Netflix, online TV etc are all coming or here, so I'd like to be able to take advantage of that.
I have an up to date Blu-Ray player (which has a so far unused wireless connection for Internet) and a stinky big Sony Bravia TV, but maybe they can go online by themselves.
LAPTOP V DESKTOP:
I no longer have the need for a Laptop (current one hasn't been outside this room in 5 years), but we get an above average amount of blackouts due to electrical storms up here. Many a time I have been very grateful that only my second monitor goes down and the Laptop keeps running on battery. To that end I will get a $150 UPS that will support a desktop and my partner's Mac for 10-15 minutes so we can do an orderly shutdown.
I guess a lot of people would advocate that I build my own PC, but I have nil experience and even less understanding, so I reckon that wouldn't work for me. I'd rather have the peace of mind of a professional build with warranty and backup service.
I run a second 24" monitor as well as the 17" Laptop, and I really like this set up. On a new Desktop I would still purchase a monitor so that I can have two.
What about an all-in-one - they seem pretty inexpensive?
WHAT BRAND?
I don't have a particular leaning to Dell, except that the current laptop has been very reliable. I don't really know much about other brands but could guess at HP, Compaq. Bit out of touch there, so some suggestions would be great.
However, XP is no longer supported, I'm having great difficulties with watching videos (as documented in another thread), and even ignoring those two things there will come a time reasonably soon when I should replace the now 8 year old technology. Furthermore, NBN will be here in around 12-15 months and it would probably be wise to have hardware and software capable of utilising it properly.
WHAT I USE IT FOR:
Websurfing
ABC iView and other videos (e.g. Youtube)
Email (Gmail, but also a tiny amount of Outlook)
A big amount of Excel (and some of the sheets can be quite large 500-1000Kb). Many of these have VB macros written into them
Creating PDFs with PDFCreator
A miserably small amount of Word usage (prefer to do documents in Excel anyway)
That's about it.
WHAT I DON'T USE IT FOR:
Gaming of any sort apart from Spider Solitaire
WHAT I MIGHT USE IT FOR:
Largely unknown, but NBN will make some big changes to they way we do things (I hope).
Netflix, online TV etc are all coming or here, so I'd like to be able to take advantage of that.
I have an up to date Blu-Ray player (which has a so far unused wireless connection for Internet) and a stinky big Sony Bravia TV, but maybe they can go online by themselves.
LAPTOP V DESKTOP:
I no longer have the need for a Laptop (current one hasn't been outside this room in 5 years), but we get an above average amount of blackouts due to electrical storms up here. Many a time I have been very grateful that only my second monitor goes down and the Laptop keeps running on battery. To that end I will get a $150 UPS that will support a desktop and my partner's Mac for 10-15 minutes so we can do an orderly shutdown.
I guess a lot of people would advocate that I build my own PC, but I have nil experience and even less understanding, so I reckon that wouldn't work for me. I'd rather have the peace of mind of a professional build with warranty and backup service.
I run a second 24" monitor as well as the 17" Laptop, and I really like this set up. On a new Desktop I would still purchase a monitor so that I can have two.
What about an all-in-one - they seem pretty inexpensive?
WHAT BRAND?
I don't have a particular leaning to Dell, except that the current laptop has been very reliable. I don't really know much about other brands but could guess at HP, Compaq. Bit out of touch there, so some suggestions would be great.
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