Wow! You'll be able to watch movies with that!
Smokin' deal.
Congrats!
Smokin' deal.
Congrats!
What is a good computer to get?
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Oh WOW..... if you click "quote" on my blank post, you can see pictures that wouldn't post.
hmm.... I just clicked on all of the blue links and looked at each. Great choices!
That sounds like an awesome desktop. 
Have fun playing with it!!
Have fun playing with it!!
For those saying Apple is great service. I'm glad you did get it. With my iphone 4s, I'm on phone #2. Bought AppleCare as well. I've talked to about 10 different service agents, 1 manager who promised me he will take care of it personnally--that turned out to be a bold face lie as he never returned phone calls or emails. Sent me 120 miles to Apple store who sent me home said they couldn't fix it. Then they sent me to another store 60 miles away that simply replaced the defective phone. Of course, they never answer the million of survey's they love to send out. Already called on this phone as it locked up already. Without 2 year warranty, Apple does not service their products.
While Dell is nothing special, they do service their accounts. Also Microsoft has a free service chat line that will fix all bugs in software. Hardware is on you.
Just my experience.
While Dell is nothing special, they do service their accounts. Also Microsoft has a free service chat line that will fix all bugs in software. Hardware is on you.
Just my experience.
Woo hoo! Enjoy your web-surfing experiences and loading up all the programs you WANT on that thing!!!
Woo hoo! Enjoy your web-surfing experiences and loading up all the programs you WANT on that thing!!!
OK, I did it.......... I made my order.I hope this is gonna be good.....
keyboard and mouse.
Monitor: 19" diagonal LCD monitor
Computer: ZT Desktop PC Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 2TB HD &Blu-ray
- Includes Affinity 7622Mi desktop system, AC adapter, and manual
- 3.4GHz second-generation Intel Core i7-2600 processor
- Intel H67 Express chipset
- 16GB DDR3 memory
- 2TB SATA II hard drive
- Blu-ray/DVD+/-RW combo drive
- Integrated Intel HD graphics with dual-monitor capability
- Six-/eight-channel ALC889 audio
- USB keyboard
- USB mouse
- 10/100/1000 gigabit LAN
- Front-panel 19-in-1 digital multimedia card reader
- Four rear USB 2.0 ports
- Two front USB 2.0 ports
- Two rear USB 3.0 ports
- Three analog audio ports
- HDMI, DVI-D, VGA, PS2, RJ-45 ports
- S/PDIF out
- PCI/PCI Express slots
- Genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit
- Microsoft Office Starter 2010
- 60 days of Symantec Norton Internet Security 2011
- Measures approximately 13-7/8"H x 7-1/8"W x 16-7/8"D
- UL listed; 1-year Limited Manufacturer's Warranty
- Assembled in USA from domestic and imported parts
Woo hoo! Enjoy your web-surfing experiences and loading up all the programs you WANT on that thing!!!
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OK, I did it.......... I made my order.I hope this is gonna be good.....
keyboard and mouse.
Monitor: 19" diagonal LCD monitor
Computer: ZT Desktop PC Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 2TB HD &Blu-ray
- Includes Affinity 7622Mi desktop system, AC adapter, and manual
- 3.4GHz second-generation Intel Core i7-2600 processor
- Intel H67 Express chipset
- 16GB DDR3 memory
- 2TB SATA II hard drive
- Blu-ray/DVD+/-RW combo drive
- Integrated Intel HD graphics with dual-monitor capability
- Six-/eight-channel ALC889 audio
- USB keyboard
- USB mouse
- 10/100/1000 gigabit LAN
- Front-panel 19-in-1 digital multimedia card reader
- Four rear USB 2.0 ports
- Two front USB 2.0 ports
- Two rear USB 3.0 ports
- Three analog audio ports
- HDMI, DVI-D, VGA, PS2, RJ-45 ports
- S/PDIF out
- PCI/PCI Express slots
- Genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit
- Microsoft Office Starter 2010
- 60 days of Symantec Norton Internet Security 2011
- Measures approximately 13-7/8"H x 7-1/8"W x 16-7/8"D
- UL listed; 1-year Limited Manufacturer's Warranty
- Assembled in USA from domestic and imported parts
Woo hoo! Enjoy your web-surfing experiences and loading up all the programs you WANT on that thing!!!
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Do I have to buy programs? Or, can I get them off my old computer?
Ok here an explanation of computers than anybody should understand. my BIL came up with a bowl of M&Ms tutorial and I've added a few other bits of info.
there are two basic types of a home computer PC-several brand names and generally cheaper and a Mac or Apple which tend to be more expensive. Except in cases of extreme computing it's really a personal choice. I will not get into the debate of which is better here(do it enough within my family)
Then you have desktops, laptops and tablets. Kinda obvious here but each of these gets smaller as you go,ie, desktops have seperate part that are plugged together to make a complete system and take up a desk top of space, laptops combine all the parts and can sit on your lap. They also have a battery and can be used when away from an outlet or can be plugged in. Most can also be used with external monitor, mouse and keyboard but it's not necessary. Tablets are smaller still and are almost handheld. Not much computing power in these but they are perfect for email, surfing the net, reading books,and some basic tasks.
The basic parts of a computer are a monitor which is the thing like a tv, the computer which is the big box everything plugs into, a keyboard - like a part of a typewriter, and a mouse- no legs but it's kinda small and if it is an older one has a cord which some call the mouses tail.
The monitor,keyboard and mouse are pretty straight forward and are tools to user (you) uses to work with the computer. In choosing one of these go with what is comfortable for you to use. For the most part these parts can be moved from one computer to another.
Now for the part that really confuses most : the computer. Inside that box are all the parts that make a computer. The ones you really need to know about are: processor, memory(ram),hard drive.
Now let's go to M&Ms. Think of them as all your little bits of information- your email, pictures,music,notes,books,etc.all the things you have stored on your computer.the programs you have fall here too,as they are instructions stored on the computer to tell it what to do. So M&Ms are your data. You put all your M&Ms in a bowl. If you have a lot you need a big bowl(note pictures can add up to a lot ofM&Ms.) The bowl is your hard drive. The more stuff you have the bigger you want your bowl. Your mouth is the processor. It takes the M&Ms and processes them into something satisfying for you. The faster and bigger mouth you have the faster you can process the M&Ms. Now to get from the bowl to your mouth you use your hand. This is your RAM (also know as memory specifically random access memory). It carries M&Ms from the bowl to the mouth for processing. The more M&Ms you can pick up and hold at one time the faster you can get them to your mouth. The speed with which your hand moves is not as important now days as how much it can hold. But the relation ship between the size of the hand and how fast your mouth can process is. You don't want a big mouth that your hand cannot hope to keep up with so you do want to have a good sized hand. And in this case a big mouth means happier you too.
now just a little bit on how size is counted in geek talk. You know the relationship of inches-feet-yard-mile or millimeter-centimeter-meter. In computer geek you have bits-bytes- kilobytes(KB)- megabytes(MB)-gigabytes(GB)- Terabytes(Tb). Hard to believe when I started my career MBs were the biggest thing. It kinda metric in that same number of a unit combines to make the next one, that is 1024 KB = 1 MB and 1024 MB = 1 GB and so on. For the sake of ease though you can generally think of in just 1000s to make the math easier. So 1,000,000,000 KB= 1,000,000 MB=1,000 GB= 1 TB. Notice how the comma and zeros just drop off as you go up? To put it into perspective an average 10megapixel picture takes 3-6MB at the middle resolutions,a 3 minute music file is 6MB, and average movie is about 4 GB
Hope this helps some.
there are two basic types of a home computer PC-several brand names and generally cheaper and a Mac or Apple which tend to be more expensive. Except in cases of extreme computing it's really a personal choice. I will not get into the debate of which is better here(do it enough within my family)
Then you have desktops, laptops and tablets. Kinda obvious here but each of these gets smaller as you go,ie, desktops have seperate part that are plugged together to make a complete system and take up a desk top of space, laptops combine all the parts and can sit on your lap. They also have a battery and can be used when away from an outlet or can be plugged in. Most can also be used with external monitor, mouse and keyboard but it's not necessary. Tablets are smaller still and are almost handheld. Not much computing power in these but they are perfect for email, surfing the net, reading books,and some basic tasks.
The basic parts of a computer are a monitor which is the thing like a tv, the computer which is the big box everything plugs into, a keyboard - like a part of a typewriter, and a mouse- no legs but it's kinda small and if it is an older one has a cord which some call the mouses tail.
The monitor,keyboard and mouse are pretty straight forward and are tools to user (you) uses to work with the computer. In choosing one of these go with what is comfortable for you to use. For the most part these parts can be moved from one computer to another.
Now for the part that really confuses most : the computer. Inside that box are all the parts that make a computer. The ones you really need to know about are: processor, memory(ram),hard drive.
Now let's go to M&Ms. Think of them as all your little bits of information- your email, pictures,music,notes,books,etc.all the things you have stored on your computer.the programs you have fall here too,as they are instructions stored on the computer to tell it what to do. So M&Ms are your data. You put all your M&Ms in a bowl. If you have a lot you need a big bowl(note pictures can add up to a lot ofM&Ms.) The bowl is your hard drive. The more stuff you have the bigger you want your bowl. Your mouth is the processor. It takes the M&Ms and processes them into something satisfying for you. The faster and bigger mouth you have the faster you can process the M&Ms. Now to get from the bowl to your mouth you use your hand. This is your RAM (also know as memory specifically random access memory). It carries M&Ms from the bowl to the mouth for processing. The more M&Ms you can pick up and hold at one time the faster you can get them to your mouth. The speed with which your hand moves is not as important now days as how much it can hold. But the relation ship between the size of the hand and how fast your mouth can process is. You don't want a big mouth that your hand cannot hope to keep up with so you do want to have a good sized hand. And in this case a big mouth means happier you too.
now just a little bit on how size is counted in geek talk. You know the relationship of inches-feet-yard-mile or millimeter-centimeter-meter. In computer geek you have bits-bytes- kilobytes(KB)- megabytes(MB)-gigabytes(GB)- Terabytes(Tb). Hard to believe when I started my career MBs were the biggest thing. It kinda metric in that same number of a unit combines to make the next one, that is 1024 KB = 1 MB and 1024 MB = 1 GB and so on. For the sake of ease though you can generally think of in just 1000s to make the math easier. So 1,000,000,000 KB= 1,000,000 MB=1,000 GB= 1 TB. Notice how the comma and zeros just drop off as you go up? To put it into perspective an average 10megapixel picture takes 3-6MB at the middle resolutions,a 3 minute music file is 6MB, and average movie is about 4 GB
Hope this helps some.
Depends, If came preinstalled on old computer, can be done but hard. Depending upon what programs you want, they may come preloaded on new one. There are also "freeware" programs that will do the same thing. If you want Office, then you will have to buy it. If you know someone in college, they can buy it for you a lot less expensive & I do mean a LOT LESS.
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