PC help required

easylife

easylife

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Iv`e been using my wifes laptop for editing, and its getting rather full even though I use an external hard drive, I now want to replace Elements 7 with CS4, so I think I should get my own, trouble is I know very little about choosing one, but I have seen aldi have an offer on starting tomorrow for a PC base station,
intel pentium E5700 processor
intel GMA X4500 graphics
3GB DDR3 SDRAM
1TD hard disk
plus other bits for just £379.99

Do anyone have an opinion if this is the type of thing that I need, as I only take photographs as a hobby
 
I'm sure that would do you fine, and Aldi's stuff hasn't been too bad in the past, as well as being very keenly priced - it doesn't come with a 3-year warranty by any chance, does it?

PC parts are all generic anyway..... you'd probably find the same parts in a dozen other systems.
 
Just remember that thats a base unit and doesn't have a monitor.

Medion kit is fairly reliable if a little basic. They usually guarentee them for 3 years but it's normaly a return to shop warranty.

As for spec, I'm not up on Intel processors being an AMD fan. I'm sure someone will enlighten us on that.
 
That would certainly do the job. Pretty much anything you can buy is up to the job of photo processing as it does not really need the ultimate PC. Does that include a monitor and what size is it? That amount will get you a usable machine in any one of lots of places.
 
Aldi stuff is fine and would probably do everything you want it too. I've used the 3 year guarantee twice on a laptop and all done over the phone. They posted out a new power cable.

My daughter has had the laptop for 3 years and it is in constant use. Only a new cable as mentioned above has gone wrong with it.
 
Thanks for that, go over in the morning, and it as a 3 year warranty and I have a newish monitor and speaker system.
 
Go for a computer with no less than 4 gig of RAM . If you use Photoshop this is the minimum I would use otherwise you could wait ages for things to load up. Worth getting one that expands to even 8 GIG RAM if you should need it


Bazza
 
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realspeed said:
Go for a computer with no less than 4 gig of RAM . If you use Photoshop this is the minimum I would use otherwise you could wait ages for things to load up. Worth getting one that expands to even 8 GIG RAM if you should need it


Bazza
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To go over 4GB of ram don't you need 64bit?
 
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