The construction business down the street is owned by a friend of ours and we help them with IT stuff when they have an emergency. A guy mowing the lawn hit the power pole, knocked out the electricity for a day and now that it is back up, their Sony PC purchased in November of 2005 won't boot...
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
The only thing this computer will be used for is for using RDP over a VPN to get on our terminal services server. This workstation uses two monitors that we already have (Samsung 723N).
2) What's your budget? Are...
My boy has created several animations using Blender and has saved $400 in babysitting money to buy a PC. He was looking at Best Buy and I told him to wait till I talked to smart people (you) first. He has a $400 laptop he purchased last year but he can't play the games he wants and he said it...
We're a small company, about 25 users with a Windows network that hums along on 7 year old servers. I'm no guru, but I've learned enough to install the network and keep things going.
Two things are about to happen. 1. I'm going to transition out of my job. 2. We'll be installing new...
I have a DDS4 tape drive working with the dated version of Symantec Backup Exec 10d. We backup the My Documents folders of office people, the Exchange server, and a couple of SQL databases. I have to swap tapes out about once a day and clean the tape drive about twice a week.
We don't have...
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Web browsing, UPS shipment processing, manufacturing database front-end software, office suite stuff - a lot of windows open at once.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
~$1200 with shipping and...