new pc with widows 7

[GRACELAND]

I,m looking to buy a new base unit and would like a bit of help

I am at the mo using an 8 year old Time machine XP Home edition Ver 2002 Service pack 3

Time Computer AMD Athlon ™ XP 2400+

2.00 GHz , 1.21 GB or Ram

My Hobby is Family history So big family tree program at mo 94.mb and growing plus saving Census pages

some photos Editing

listen to some cds ,Internet browsing and Email

Not for Game playing

And hopefully looking to spend up to £500

so what size am i looking for ??

[Martin Bennitt]

no idea, I run a Mac

but whatever you get beware of the black screen of death

cheers Martin B

[keithmroberts]

If you are happy with your monitor, and there are some splendid new ones around, then you might look at Novatech. I have no shares in them. Almost any new PC will have oodles of storage capacity. Just look for plenty of operating memory. Of course its more fun to build your own.

Keith

[GRACELAND]

yep all i,m after is the Bace unit Monitor is good Printer is good

[truthergw]

Why not just add another hard drive? An hour at the most assuming you have never done it before. Cost less than £50.  

Incidentally, I upgraded my box last Friday and am running Win 7 64 bit on it. I have had no trouble.

I put in a new motherboard, quad chip, DD3 RAM and a 320 Gig hard drive ( 2 actually and win7 lets me run them as mirrors without a RAID setup). Less than £500 the lot. 

[Owen Hales]

I,m looking to buy a new base unit and would like a bit of help ..............using an 8 year old Time machine XP Home edition .............................big family tree program ....................

Before you make your choice, ensure that your FH programs will run on your new systems OS. Many old programs just will not.

Owen Hales