What is a good computer to get?

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kathyinmo said:
What does it mean when it says it is good for gamers? What games? On the internet or on discs or what? I don't understand what that means.

What is RAM? Is that what makes it faster? How much RAM should I have?
What is hard drive for? Bigger is better? ?????
What is a mother board?

Honest.... I am clueless on these dang computers....
One thing I do know.... I do NOT want another laptop. I hate those things. I need to replace my desk top model.
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Gamers need extremely rapid response for high graphics. And they also play online in teams, so they need fast connections and little lag time between moves. Don't worry about getting something specifically touted as good for gamers.

RAM is "Random Access Memory" and it's part of what makes a computer faster, because that's short term storage for when the computer is actually on and running. RAM storage allows larger programs to run from a duplicate copy (sort of) kept in the RAM while you're using it, instead of having to go pull features or memory from the hard drive or disc storage. You want a lot of RAM.

The Hard Drive is where everything is saved, and bigger IS better. It's saved there so you can access it when you turn on the computer; RAM is cleared when you turn off the computer.

A mother board is the physical board on which all the little memory chips and lights and whistles are attached.

I have been really surprised at the Hard Drive and RAM size of computers you can now buy at WalMart! Great prices, too! You can get a pretty darned good computer with plenty of memory size to do what you want to do, Kathy.. I prefer HP to Dell, but I have had two Dell computers prior to this HP. I bought THIS computer off QVC!!
 
We just bought new laptops (I read that is not what you want), and we have it set up like a desktop. Monitor and keyboard plugged in and it "feels" like a desktop, yet when I have to travel for business, I can just unplug and go. It's an Asus I got at Best Buy. I mostly use mine for FB games and BYC, email.

Thing with computers these days, even a bottom of the line model has WAY more RAM (memory) and hard drive space (where you save pics and recipes, etc.) than you or I will ever need.
 
debiraymond said:
Thing with computers these days, even a bottom of the line model has WAY more RAM (memory) and hard drive space (where you save pics and recipes, etc.) than you or I will ever need.
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I currently have less than 5% of memory (I think it is memory) left. I have to keep deleting programs to make space.
 
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kathyinmo said:
I currently have less than 5% of memory (I think it is memory) left. I have to keep deleting programs to make space.
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Is it an older desktop? These days, at least when I was shopping for mine, the memory and hard drives are HUGE! You may just want to go through and delete all the programs you don't use.

ETA: You can also buy a really large memory card and have it installed for around $120.
 
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What you have left is hard drive space. Not gonna get into "memory". lol

Kathy, depending on what you want to embrace, but Mac OS is my first choice for everyday stuff. No pain, no strain. It does indeed just work.
Otherwise, I am geeky enough to completely enjoy running Linux, which will run on any hardware.

Computers are machines. They do what we tell them to do. I've been geeking since the double digit Tandy TRS-80 days, and you've got to be over 50 years old to even know what that means. Mainframes and heck, even punch card machines before that. Ok....... TMI
 
Fred's Hens said:
Computers are machines. They do what we tell them to do. I've been geeking since the double digit Tandy TRS-80 days, and you've got to be over 50 years old to even know what that means. Mainframes and heck, even punch card machines before that. Ok....... TMI
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