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What up fells, and especially the ladies;)
OK I'm finally getting somewhere with this Internet Marketing bologna and now that I'm starting to automate things this POS many years old gateway just aint cuttin it (hell it can barley handle firefox, limewire, and aim at the same time haha). I was looking into a labtop to compliment it but it just seems to keep getting slower so I'm looking into gettin a second comp to run shit on and was hoping for your expert opinions. I want Gnarpower cause im sick of this slow shithouse being so slow, and getting fuckin stuck, and dag nam crashing shit!:angryfire:
Keep in mind I aint a super affiliate yet so price is pretty important too, thanks in advanced:D
 


kaveman said:
What up fells, and especially the ladies;)
OK I'm finally getting somewhere with this Internet Marketing bologna and now that I'm starting to automate things this POS many years old gateway just aint cuttin it (hell it can barley handle firefox, limewire, and aim at the same time haha). I was looking into a labtop to compliment it but it just seems to keep getting slower so I'm looking into gettin a second comp to run shit on and was hoping for your expert opinions. I want Gnarpower cause im sick of this slow shithouse being so slow, and getting fuckin stuck, and dag nam crashing shit!:angryfire:
Keep in mind I aint a super affiliate yet so price is pretty important too, thanks in advanced:D
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First mistake is a Brand Name, first suggestion is Don't ever buy a brand name desktop computer, laptops are different but for a laptop I'd suggest the mac book or a sony vaio.

Some good desktop computers are Alien Ware but they are a bit pricey, stick with asus type of things, the problem with brand name computers is you can only insert brand name parts for those computer, dell for dell, and so on, you cannot use say mac in a dell, they suck in that aspect.

Go with one you can build yourself, its not hard to put a computer together and if your willing to spend about $1K Canadian (without the monitor) you can build yourself one kick ass computer that will last for quiet a long time.
 
Dell bought out alienware but I dont think they've screwed them up yet.
 
I'll be honest, my little HP Pavilion cost me $300 (refurb) and runs really well. I can even play Supreme Commander on it! ;)

I'm running a 2.8g AMD 64 with 2gigs RAM (I upgraded from installed 1gig). I'm running a low end ATI graphics card w/ 512mb PCI-X running to dual 20" wides. It's a great setup, and perfect for the world of internet marketing & site building.

I'm also running a separate dev box which is running W2K Server and SQL2005 on a 3 year old machine that I bought off my buddy for a couple hundred bucks.

Anyways, yeah. Moral of the story is that HP Refurb is pretty good. Kave - don't forget you can email my buddy Phil (phil@wpobs.com), he was at the dinner (he was the one looking confused at all our jargon). He might be able to save you a few bucks.
 
I'm spending a couple grand on new computer parts to build my next computer. I also have a self-built slow computer 1.4Ghz Athlon. But you know what, my 1.4Ghz comp has premium parts that gets better clock scores than some 2Ghz branded machines with cheap parts.

As for a recommendation, dual core or quad core is where it is at. Especially for automated hard tasks. Get 2GB ram and a decent video card.
 
Xrproto said:
Dell bought out alienware but I dont think they've screwed them up yet.
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Alienware was already fucked up. Their customer service is worse than dells and the laptop I got from them was a major POS. Came with a bad video card, power supply died within a year, cd-rom drive died within a year, ram had to be replaced within a year, oh ya and it overheated after 3 months use :repuke:

I got a Dell XPS laptop right before they became "one" and the laptop has had zero problems and it's not new anymore either.

As far as what desktop... build your own!
 
ToddW said:
Alienware was already fucked up. Their customer service is worse than dells and the laptop I got from them was a major POS. Came with a bad video card, power supply died within a year, cd-rom drive died within a year, ram had to be replaced within a year, oh ya and it overheated after 3 months use :repuke:

I got a Dell XPS laptop right before they became "one" and the laptop has had zero problems and it's not new anymore either.

As far as what desktop... build your own!
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Never owned a Alienware laptop...but I've only heard good things about them...until now.

I've also been looking into laptops and XPS seem to be a decent buy.
 
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Xrproto said:
Never owned a Alienware laptop...but I've only heard good things about them...until now.

I've also been looking into laptops and XPS seem to be a decent buy.
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I've owned an xps for almost a year now. I got the dell XPS 1710. Its a wonderful machine. If you do a TON of traveling get something smaller. But if you're using it for your primary desktop the size is managable.


I think the most important question you didn't answer is. What is your price range?
 
I have the Dell XPS M1210. The screen is small at 12'', but if you don't mind that it really is a sturdy little notebook. Haven't had any issues with it so far, just be sure to get rid of all the crap that Dell pre-loads on your system. After that it will work blazin' fast.
 
Aequitas said:
the problem with brand name computers is you can only insert brand name parts for those computer, dell for dell, and so on, you cannot use say mac in a dell, they suck in that aspect.
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Not quite true. You can use anything you want in the newer computers. Used to be a little different back when the formats weren't quite ironed out but you can use anything you want in the newer computers, all add in cards fit, all drives fit. Your only limitation is the case size you get. Unless of course you buy an eMachine, but then you get what you have coming to you for being a cheap bastard.

You can't put a Mac anything in a PC anything for the most part.

If your looking to get the most value for your money you can't beat buying a Dell. You'll get good performance and it'll be cheaper than a comparable machine you try to piece together yourself or one you find at your local discount chain. Watch their ads and time it right and you'll get a hell of a deal. I've purchased thousands of workstations and servers through them and am quite happy with their value to performance ratio. As a matter of fact I even have one under my desk.

If you want the high end performance then you'll economically come out ahead if you purchase the components yourself but you'll need to do a lot of research to make sure that you get components that work together.

If you go the build it yourself route then these are your two best sources for pricing.

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Oh, and as an additional bit of advice, other than having a fast processor, lots of memory and decent video, the biggest thing you can do to improve performance is to have 2 drives that are setup in a raid 0 stripping. It increase your desktop speed tremendously when writing or reading from the disk (doubles performance).
 
Get a mac.

With the new Intel chips they can run windows. Plus osx is much sexier.

Ditch vista, keep XP =P aka build your own desktop or buy a no os installed pc and load what you want on there.
 
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