PGit wrote:
Well after many, many years of using my trusty A1200 (since the 1990s) I believe it may be time to obtain something more powerful (and it won't be around forever, I'm surprised it's lasted this long).
I'm not looking for anything much more powerful than 1ghz with around a 20gig harddrive. I don't require it to have internet or DVD and a direct3D 32-64mb graphics card. Can anyone give an indication of the sort of prices I could expect to pay.
Not shure where you are from, but here in the US you can buy a nice bottom of the line system from one of the major consumer stores for 500 dollars or less. You can buy a brand new bottom line notebook from dell for about 500 dollars, it's a nice laptop, not good for games , but good for everything else.
Goto dell or hp website, buy a box online. The only reason these days to spend a lot of money on a computer are for playing games, or doing some kind of professional applicatition like servers, image processing/ 3d work, etc.
Average guy who doesnt play games gets by on a machine worth less than $100 USD.
And if you want to play games, why not go with a console, at least then the games dont screw up your PC.
