[OPLINTECH] Purchasing new PCs

[Ed Liddle]

Jim,
For the minimal price difference between DVD rom drives and burners, I would go with burners. The big question in the near future I think would be Blue Ray DVD Players/burners vs. regular DVD burners.

Intel Vs. AMD .... I would look at the bang for the buck ..... speed, number of cores, and hardware virtualization support. Hardware virtualization support on the processor becomes important if you may have to run any legacy XP apps in XP compatibility mode on Windows 7 Professional.

On a personal note, I bought an AMD Athlon II quad core processor, mobo, and ram for a computer upgrade for home. It runs quick! I have 6 gigs of RAM in it. I am using Sun's virtual box on 64 bit ubuntu linux for the host OS to run a VM of mythTV back end server and a VM of 64 bit windows 7 pro. Both operating systems see the AMD processor and performance on them are stellar in my opinion while running them at the same time. The processor was bought for 99 bucks.  A 64 bit quadcore intel processor was more expensive at the time.  I opted for the AMD and have no regrets thus far.  I have not ran any Microsoft OS natively on the AMD Athlon II processor. I would assume they too would run well on it, even Vista since Vista runs well my my wife's AMD Turion X2 processor on her laptop.

-Ed Liddle

From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lack
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:37 PM
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Subject: [OPLINTECH] Purchasing new PCs

Quick and dirty.....
Processors for new computers.....Intel or AMD?   positives and negatives

For public computers....DVD writers or plain, old DVD ROMs?  With the cost of jump drives these days, wouldn't it be easier for the Public to save their work on jump drives instead of burning to DVDs?

Your thoughts!


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