: On my budget system, the copy of Office gets moved over from the old PC.
: I'm still running my five year old copy of Office 2000, and see no reason to
: upgrade.
:
Put any extra money into two things ~
More memory ~ since the dawn of digital history, money in memory has always
paid off. With memory intensive apps like SW, there is no such thing as 'extra'
memory.
Graphics upgrade ~ 3/4 of any money 'left over' should be put into GPU
upgrade. Bang for the buck, this is tops. Nothing else so dramatically effects
program perfomance, or degrades or crashes the same, like an underpowered,
inadequate graphics card. A couple hundred $ on this is money well spent.
Other hardware/sofware/system considerations are secondary.
David Janes
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: : > > "Michael" wrote...
: > > You forgot one major line item--
: > > XP-pro, OEM liscense, $130
: >
: > I knew I forgot something. I thnik we're still under budget. Maybe
: > add a sound card and speakers? I suppose Microsoft Office would
: > need to be purchased as well to do design tables. That may throw
: > us over $800.00.
: >
: > Mike
: >
: >
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