thanks for the good advice. i told her she would probably have to buy a
more powerful cpu with the souped up memory, in fact I buy the old one from
her for a few bucks so I can put it in my old computer and install Linux so
I can have some fun...



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Date:    Sat, 9 Feb 2002 09:00:22 -0800
From:    Peter Shkabara <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: need advice on upgrading a computer.

The computer your sister got is fine for practice, but is not suitable
to "run with the big dogs." Tell her to use it as is, don't spend any
money upgrading - it would be a waste. We are using machines like hers
for our networking lab as practice machines. For  graphics work, you
would need at least a 400MHz P2 with 128M RAM. I know others will say
that you need a 2GHz P4 with 1G RAM, and this is fine if you have the
money, but you can get away with less!

Peter
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Peter Shkabara - Computer Science Instructor
Columbia College - 11600 Columbia College Drive - Sonora, CA 95370
(209) 588-5156 - [log in to unmask] - http://gocolumbia.org/pesh

-----Original Message-----
my sister acquired a  computer for 250 bucks, its a nice little
computer. the monitor was unused. she has win 95 and home office on it,
its a COMPAQ PRESARIO Pentium(r) w/MMX @ 166Mhz, 80MB Ram, 2.5GB hard
drive. She wants to run with the big dogs ie. doing graphics and web
sites and financial reports. What should she ramp up first? how big
should she go if she wants dreamweaver, INdesign, Photoshop, that kind
of thing?

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