PC Advice needed... can someone tell me if this is a good deal?

It certainly looks it on the face of it.

I just want a PC with no peripherals, and a half decent spec, for my mum. Bear in mind she currently has a Dell laptop, with 1.2 processor and 256 RAM...

Is not having OS recovery discs a problem?

Only drawback I can see is that it doesn't have a DVD Write, but I cant see her using that too much.

Does the Network/Connectivity bit mean it has a wireless network adapter?

Don't really get Dual Core - can I take it that 1.8 Dual Core is in reality 3.6 speed?

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Posted By: Yellalee on November 17th 2008 at 15:48:10

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PC Advice needed... can someone tell me if this is a good deal? (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 15:48:10
- Looks like it only has an inbuilt soundcard - not a good idea? (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:46:25
  - To be fair, none of my PCs have dedicated soundcards. (General Chat) - Arganth, Nov 17, 16:51:40
  - My machine has a built-in soundcard, and it's no problem. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:49:21
    - Excellent. We only have a little 2.1 system that'll be plugged into the earphone jack (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:51:36
- Re : the lack of OS discs. (General Chat) - Arganth, Nov 17, 16:42:22
  - Except the lack of discs could indicate that it's knock off (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 17, 17:50:35
- In theory its quicker than 3.6 as you have 2 processors so the theory is (General Chat) - megson, Nov 17, 15:59:03
  - It's likely to be nowhere near twice as quick even doing two tasks at once (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 17, 17:56:54
  - No - not quite. If the processor has only one task to complete, (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:02:08
    - yeah that's as complicated as you need to be for me! (General Chat) - megson, Nov 17, 16:12:17
      - Heh, quad core would make very little difference for that (General Chat) - scruffy, Nov 17, 19:19:23
      - Ha ha. No, it isn't, but it'll do. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:13:02
        
        Brilliant, so I'm right then? (LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU) (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Nov 17, 16:21:07
    - Depends how you define "task"... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:03:44
      - Yeah. I wrote about a paragraph about "when I say 'task', I don't mean a single program" (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:05:00
        
        Right. Here is what it will be used for (typically) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:08:32
        
        Sounds like the only hitch to all that (General Chat) - pants, Nov 17, 16:34:38
        
        Acsherlly the best performance boost to any FM edition is a fast hard drive (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:35:32
        
        "Look at some photos" (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Nov 17, 16:29:58
        
        *Shudder*. It's my mum we're talking about here (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:33:52
        
        Roluf. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:31:03
        
        It'll be fine. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:11:16
- The "10/100 NIC" is a WIRED network adapter, not wireless. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 15:54:22
  - "Dual core" DOESN'T mean that you can double the quoted speed figure, mores the pity. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 15:57:23
    - But depending on what it is doing it can perform faster than a (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:00:48
      - Yeah, depends what it's doing. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:03:25
    - ^^^ i'd listen to him rather than me TBH lee. (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Nov 17, 15:59:53
    - Blimey. Check out the pens in this thread. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Nov 17, 15:59:45
      - It's a cracking pens thread (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Nov 17, 16:06:07
    - Apart from that, for the money, it doesn't look too bad at all. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 15:59:39
      - Umm. There's nothing in the specs to back this up, but looking at the picture, it looks (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:10:05
        
        OK. Final query. Presumably we will see a notable difference in speed (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:19:40
        
        Only thing I can say is, the best pc we have at home (General Chat) - pants, Nov 17, 16:25:29
        
        You ought to notice a decent improvement. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 17, 16:24:55
        
        So is FireFox... (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Nov 17, 18:00:53
        
        Yeah, kind of what I'm saying too, jumping from 256mb to a 1gb should feel superfast (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Nov 17, 16:28:45
        
        Yes, pants, you are right as well (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:29:57
        
        I know - I can't stand it personally, but I can't convince her to use anything else... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 16:28:29
        
        My wife refused to upgrade from her (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:32:38
        
        haha, that's a turnaround of events (General Chat) - pants, Nov 17, 16:38:05
        
        To improve speed of starting up Outlook.... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 17, 16:23:12
  - OK - not a big issue as router is next to PC anyway (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Nov 17, 15:55:41

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