Workstation shuttle suggestions

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Mustin

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Our office manager has been complaining about the computer running too slow. I have done what I, with my limited knowledge, can to help speed things up without killing the computer. So, I am coming to all of you for advice on building a Shuttle or just ITX base computer.

Uses:
Al Gore's Inter-web :rolleyes:
Quickbooks
Excel & Outlook
Misc. work aspects

Budget:
$1000.00 Dollars or 17,493,000 Dong ;)

Must Include:
Monitor
OS
Outlook 2007
Media creating software (DVD, CD, WAV, etc...)
500 GB HDD or more
Multi-card reader
I HATE SLOW COMPUTERS

Already Have:
Keyboard & mouse
DVD burner combo drive

I am hoping to get most of these parts at Fry's. Especially since there is one close to me. Thank you in advance for all the help and I am looking forward to reading what everyone comes up with.

Cheers,
Jeremy
 
His sysytem must be like Pentium 2 to not be able to run those uber basic tasks smoothly; an Atom-based PC/netbook will run those apps to the ground. Has his system been defragged regularly? Visitations to NSFW sites? Virus and trojan stricken? A $1000 computer will turn to trash if he's a complete noob at maintaining a PC, which you should get him to educate himself in first, as I can't think of any instances a P4 and higher computer (assuming that's what's he's got) can't run those apps butter-smoothly. $1000, that's a gaming/workstation budget; those tasks are office PC specs (aka. require nothing remotely mid end).
 
Its an old celeron single core I believe. Maintenance has been performed by me. I seriously doubt she goes to any NSFW sites. Its the age of the PC thats hindering the work performance.
 
We looked at dell and they are around $800.00+ with no monitor and lesser parts. I will check out Eeebox today. I was thinking of going to Costco and checking things out there because I can get 3 year warranty on all electronic using my Costco Amex. I thought making a new shuttle would be fun and we could get better components.
 
The Eeebox is a good idea but wont work for us. HDD space too small and we have 2 other harddrives to transfer info from. We need 500gb or more. And for the price of 500gb we might as well spend the extra $30 and get 1TB. Costco was a bust but I did pic up a TV when I was there. Not a total loss.

Thanks for the suggestions and the great ideas.

Cheers,
Jeremy
 
If you're going to fry's, Are you goign to build it yourself or are you looking for a pre-built solution?

HP

FRYS.com # items:

5499739 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8400 - BX80570E8400 - Box CPU - Socket LGA775 $169.99
5661311 Shuttle KPC K-48 Black $129.99
5588400 Microsoft Windows Vista Business 64 SP1 (Full Version)OEM for System Builders $149.99
5612111 SAMSUNG 500GB SERIAL ATA/300 16MB BUFFER INTERNAL HARD DRIVE - HD502IJ $79.99
5530560 DDR2 4GB PC6400 DUAL CRUCIAL $35.99
5626391 MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2007 WITH BUSINESS CONTACT MANAGER $149.99
5705812 Acer P221wd 22" Widescreen LCD 1680 x 1050, 2500:1, 5ms Response Time $179.99
subtotal: $895.93
 
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