Computer Forum

**Sophy** · 06-26-2008, 02:38 AM

Hi! I'm a new member. I need Advice for buying Desktop computer I've seen around in many Stores they've got Toshiba, Dell, Compaq, Nec, Packard Bell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard. In many stores Hewlett Packard is most on sell.Can everyone please give me advice or recommend what computer brand should i buy?

**davin** · 06-26-2008, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Sophy

Hi! I'm a new member. I need Advice for buying Desktop computer I've seen around in many Stores they've got Toshiba, Dell, Compaq, Nec, Packard Bell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard. In many stores Hewlett Packard is most on sell.Can everyone please give me advice or recommend what computer brand should i buy?

All these are good brands you can buy computer from DELL or HP

**johnlloyd** · 06-26-2008, 08:31 AM

all the brand you said above are all good, but if ever i gonna choose that will be IBM or Dell!

**rsrikanth05** · 06-26-2008, 11:06 AM

I don't believe in brands except in case of a lappy, then go for Dell, or ASUS.
I belive in getting the parts and putting them together myself or paying someone to do it, as Branded PCs areactually a waste of money.

**wisdomtool** · 06-26-2008, 11:30 AM

I would go for HP, its computer is consistent and good, the rest really depends but HP's quality is extremely consistent.

**rsrikanth05** · 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by wisdomtool

I would go for HP, its computer is consistent and good, the rest really depends but HP's quality is extremely consistent.

Hehe, really they are just charging you so they can have their logo on your PC, you should be charging them for that.

**Learning Newbie** · 06-26-2008, 01:23 PM

No cult members in here? Steve Jobs would be so disappointed!

Since you're buying a desktop and not a laptop computer, the brand isn't very important. What really matters on any computer is the components inside, but with a desktop, you can open the hood and change them out if you ever feel like it.

**rsrikanth05** · 06-26-2008, 01:31 PM

Yep.
Don't get a Mac.
Don't get an Intel CPU, get AMD, get an ATI graphics card.
Get Transcend RAM, Seagate or Hitachi HDD, no Western Digital, it is useless.
AN ASUS motherboard and a Samusng or LiteON DVD Writer.

**shoaaib** · 06-27-2008, 09:59 AM

My favourite computer brand is Dell and I am using Dell machines from over 7 years...

**rsrikanth05** · 06-27-2008, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by shoaaib

My favourite computer brand is Dell and I am using Dell machines from over 7 years...

Onlydisadvantage is that Dell uses only Intel CPUs and I don't like Intel.

**Learning Newbie** · 06-27-2008, 08:49 PM

AMD is actually really nice. Their HyperTransport feature blows the socks off a front side bus!

**philmetz** · 06-28-2008, 03:52 AM

Dell is good and reliable

**rsrikanth05** · 06-28-2008, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

AMD is actually really nice. Their HyperTransport feature blows the socks off a front side bus!

Finally someone agrees with me that AMD rules.
Adding to your talkpation.

**Nuvo** · 06-28-2008, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by rsrikanth05

Yep.
Don't get a Mac.
Don't get an Intel CPU, get AMD, get an ATI graphics card.
Get Transcend RAM, Seagate or Hitachi HDD, no Western Digital, it is useless.
AN ASUS motherboard and a Samusng or LiteON DVD Writer.

Using an ATI graphics card over an nVidia card isn't always the best option depending on your OS of choice.
ATI has always had horrible support for Linux, but nVidia cards work fairly well (I used to run Ubuntu with Compiz on a 3.2Ghz P4 with 512MiB of RAM and a 256MiB GeForce FX 5500 graphics card without any problems).
I'm not saying nVidia is perfect, but they have definitely had less trouble supporting Linux.

My current system is a Samsung R700 Aura:
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66
2GiB DDR2 RAM
250GiB Hitachi HDD
nVidia GeForce 8400M GS
17" widescreen LCD
5-in-1 card reader
TSSTCorp (Toshiba Samsung Technologies) CD \ DVDRW
HDMI & S-VGA output
802.11b \ g WiFi
1.3MPX webcam
Anti-bacterial (silver ion) keyboard

It's a laptop, and while it's hardly the most powerful system on the market, it does what I need and hasn't given me any problems so far.

**XWS Ryan** · 06-30-2008, 10:59 PM

I always bought dell before I started building my own systems. I would recommend them or HP.

**tali94** · 07-04-2008, 11:02 AM

I recommend ASUS over all brands, they offer great support and I have used an ASUS for 5 years without repair, as for dell, 2 months and it needed repair, twice!

**corleone** · 07-04-2008, 12:34 PM

I'm obsessed by Japan product. Definitely I will suggest you to buy Toshiba. Try to search online about Toshiba product reliable.

**wchua24** · 07-04-2008, 01:58 PM

i prefer getting good parts and assembling they all together is the best...thats what my computer is..

**02032395549** · 07-04-2008, 06:48 PM

i have DELL and have no reasons to cry=D

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**Elisor** · 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Sophy

Hi! I'm a new member. I need Advice for buying Desktop computer I've seen around in many Stores they've got Toshiba, Dell, Compaq, Nec, Packard Bell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard. In many stores Hewlett Packard is most on sell.Can everyone please give me advice or recommend what computer brand should i buy?

I'm guessing from your post that you're not overly knowlegeable about computer hardware, so recommending various custom configs may be a but pointless.

All of the brands you've mentioned are fine, and I've used all of them except for NEC (are they even made anymore?). Today it's more about price/performance/service than branding since an awful lot of the parts in each of those desktops are probably the same, or at least from the same manufacturers.

I'd recomend you find the 3 machines that best meet your price/performance criteria and then check out their reviews. Find the one that's got the best review and go with that.