I am considering updating my processor.  My friend is offering me one from his 286 for slightly less than a P4 from best buy.  Which is a better deal?  Also, how to put processor in disk drive?
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Your friend is either playing a joke on you or is trying to cheat you.\n\nA 286 is ancient technology and is worthless to you.
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As long as you are going to all that trouble to put another drive on the new machine you might want to see what is on sale lately. I saw that Microcenter on the Internet has a 250 gig drive for $49 after rebates. Comes the day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday) I expect a bunch more great sales. Keep an eye out for a biggie at a low price.
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No CD burner?  that person's on crack!  I have a 15" Macbook Pro 2.0 GHz/256 MB VRAM, with 2 GB RAM and 100 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive. Oh, yeah.. and a SUPERDRIVE (DVD -R -RW +R +RW and CD -R -RW).  I sold my Dual 1.8 GHz G5 tower, and have UPGRADED in power and performance.  My system runs very smoothly.  I've taken it apart.  Its thin, lightweight, good screen quality, ect.  Warmth of the machine depends on how much air it gets and the temperature of the room.  At home it's hot, but at school and even outside with a breeze, it stays cool.  The design of it is exelent.  My dad's HP notebook is almost twice as thick, twice as heavy, I always hit the disk eject button on the side, and the fans are on the BOTTOM where your legs go!  Macbook Pro is good.
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Okay...  The difference between a 3.0 and a 2.8 is negligible.  However, if the 3.0 were tapped with HT, or Hyperthreading, the difference would be enormous.  Hyperthreading virtually turns one processor into two.  It will significantly increase the PC performance when it comes to multi-tasking.  Look for it.\nFSB... or Front Side Bus...  Imagine a funnel.  The CPU speed, like 3 GHz, would be the top of the funnel.  The FSB would be the bottom.  No matter how big the top is, the bottom can only allow so much out at one time.  There are FSB's up to 2000 now.\nMemory... the speed is what you're looking at.  This means that the memory clock is set at 533 MHz/sec.  The higher the speed, obviously, the faster information can be retrieved from memory.  The DIMMs are the number of slots availible.  If you have 2 DIMMs, then you have 2 slots for memory.  A maximum of 2 GHz of memory is availible.  At 4 DIMMs, your maximum is 4 GHz.  The more memory, the faster you can get programs to load, or the less lag you'd see in high res games.\nHard Drive...  As a hard drive reads its disks, it writes information to the cache.  The larger the cache, the more information you can access before the HDD has to read more.  So, the higher the Cache, the better.  As far as RPMs, this is the speed at which the disks spin, and logically, the higher the RPM, the faster the HDD can access new information.\nYour options are all dependant on your budget.  You will get great performance with the 2.8, with 512 Megs of memory, with a 7200 RPM hdd with an 8MB cache.  But, the more you can afford to put in it, the longer it will take before you are way behind tomorrow's technologies.\nIf you have further questions, feel free to email me at this yahoo screen name.  I build and repair PCs for a living.
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the 4200 means 4.2 ghz comparable but that is hype,  to get the most out of a system you need fast memory DDR2 which AMD doesn't support yet, and a fast HDD  western digital Raptor 10000 rpm with a seek time 1/2 of the next competitor, the processor is just 1 part of the system, if you dont have enough and fast memory you will never get the max out of the processor,
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I don't live in Ohio, but is Microcenter to far a drive? They've got very good prices (better than Best Buy), also they have there headqauters there. You can find there location at www.microcenter.com
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Depends on what you do really. if you just use it for basic word processing, its probably not a big deal. but if you use it for more intense things such as development or gaming, then yes, its really time for an upgrade. The processor of the new model you mentioned will be roughly 3 to 4 times more powerful. Even more maybe since your computer is kind of old. Also look at RAM (memory) and you should get at least 512 mb 600 mhz. However, your computer way obsolete when it comes to power. But like I said, depending on what you do, it may not be an issue.
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ok you only want the system to surf the net, i pressume you will at some point want to watch video files?\nso you want a system with a minimum 512MB 333mhz or faster (higher numbered) DDR or DDRII RAM(Minimum).\nprocessor speed of 1.8GHz (1800Mhz) is a little slow but will work adequetly (i built a system for a neighbour with similer requirements to yours)\nas much cach level 1 and level 2 as possible (the higher the number the better)\n\nfor your needs as a beginer 120GB (unformatted) 111GB approx (formatted) should be a good starting point, however make sure the hard drive RPM is above 7200RPM and if the system has SATA capability even if the system has no sata drive installed will enable you to upgrade to larger hard drives (although you can upgrade your primary drive) SATA transfers faster than PATA/UDMA/IDE drives of the same size and RPM.\n\nif you can make sure the System has seagate brand hard drive(s) as this brand is the most reliable you can get.\nyou should also check the systems PSU (Power Supply Unit) as most budget systems come with only around a 350 to 400W this will in the short term be ok your system may (if you get the right PSU) work faster and with a greater level of system stability with a much larger PSU for example in my primary system i have a 650W PSU but then i'm running 7 internal hard drives, 1 DVD burner, floppy multiple PCI cards, AGP graphics card, AMD Sempron 3400 CPU.\n\nyour current system at 240MB? that sounds a little problem? as memory is normaly in multiples such as 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1024MB (1GB), and buffered or unbuffered you should never mix buffered and unbuffered in the same system or your system will become unstable.\nremember when you get your new system you should be able to install the old hard drive in the new system for ease of accessing your old personal data.\n\nif you were local to me i could possibly provide better assistance such as either browsing the stores with you or buying the components and assembling the system yourself.\nremember that if you do build a new computer and scrap your old one you can get away with using your old software, some of your old hardware such as your display panel keyboard and mouse etc.\nthe only think you would realy need to buy would be new main board, CPU, RAM, and possibly a new hard drive. you then just scrap your old system components. which means if money is tight why buy a complete new system if you only need the new components, by buying and building selectively you can get more for your money effectively. however unless you know what you are doing you could fry the componets as they are electostaticaly sensetive, so you need to ground yourself with a wrist strap or other device when building your system remeber to ground to any properly earthed such as a cable connected to bare copper on a central heating system or other similar instalation.
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buy it now if you need it now. (i'm an 12" iBook owner). its unrealistic to expect the new Intel based macs to be a lot cheaper, and essentially, all new apps written in new xCode can be run in both PowerPC based and Intel based macs.\n\nalso, Apple says it is going to support the PowerPC macs for a very long period of time and will release at least two of its future Mac OS X in PowerPC version.\n\nif you want to have the perfect computer, you really need to wait forever.
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Both are made by Intel - I don't personally see any real difference in performance from the type of chip (either Celeron or Pentium).\n\nWhat you really need to know is the clockspeed, not the chip name.\n\nThe PC you buy should reflect what purpose it will be used for. If it's just word documents etc, you only need an entry level PC, but for high powered graphics editing, serious gaming etc, you'll want a higher spec one.\n\nPCs on the market today are getting to the 4GHz mark (that's 4 GigaHertz) for the really high spec models.\n\nDepending on what you want to buy, you need to understand that the higher the clockspeed, the faster the PC will be.\n\nAdditionally, you should check out how much RAM it has. For docs, you can go for 128/256 MB RAM, but higher spec PCs are getting produced with upwards of 1024 MB\n\nHard disk size is merely to do with the amount of data you will store on it. Standard is 80GB last time I checked, but there are PCs out there with 250GB etc. As with the above, it's all to do with requirement and bigger is better. Remember with this though that text takes up less space than graphics.\n\nHope this helps.
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intel core 2 duo\nfamily t7x00 not t5x00\n\n>> base t7200 is 2.0 ghz, 667 mhz fsb & 4 mb l2 cache > which is awesome\n\nturin struggles at 512 kb to 1 mb l2 cache, further divided between the 2 cores ! <256+256 / 512+512>
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I would certainly not go with a Pentium 4.  The best one out right now is the Intel Core Duo (Centrino Duo is the laptop version).  This along with 1-2 gigs of ram and 80+ gigs of hard drive space, and a video card 64megs of video ram should be good for the next few yeras.  If you wnat to save money, you can get about the same thing with a Pentium M processor, but I would certainly not use a pentium 4, he/she will get no battery life out of it.  they also are very hot, and aren't very fast at all.  the Pentium M and Duo even tho it has a lower clock rate (the gigahertz) they are much more efficient per clock cycle (they do more each time, rather then simply doing a little very fast).
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Go for the intel core2 duo processor. I prefer it more than AMD Athlon. I dont have an Athlon but I have seen people regretting their decision to buy AMD. Go for intel as your needs are quite simple. And by the way, which college offers degree in software engineering?
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That is an awesome price for a computer!! Hands down. In truth, a celeron processor isn't the best BUT it depends on what you're going to use it for. Regardless you can not beat that price! That is amazing!! Ha, you could sell it for 4 times that on EBAY!!
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True.  RAM is the cheapes upgrade, but 1GB or RAM is huge and most people won't need more if you keep your hard disk clean and defragmented.\n\nAlso make sure that you are not starting useless services and programs that take time to load.  Use Tune Up Utilities or Ace Utilities and Registry Mechanic (PC Tools) to delete unwanted files, obsolete registry entries and tune your Paging File size to a lower value.  Also make sure that your cache for Temporary Internet Files is set to about 80MB (500MB is insane).  Everytime you enter a URL and a file is requested via http: protocol, the HD searches through this pile of garbage file.  Unless you visit the same 10 sites over and over, this cache will do you little good because the file will never be requested from the cache... Do this by Tools > Internet Options > General Tab select Settings and adjust the value lower.\n\nFor hardware updated memory is first (you can rule that out...  If you don't have a DVD writer then you can get one of them on the internet (Dual layer R/W) for $39.  Hard disk is getting extremely cheap and adding more storage is cool.  The best price advantage now is for the large IDE drive like Seagate 160 GB Barracuda.  SATA drives (150 and 300 KB/S transfer rates) are now becoming standard and supported by most newer motherboards.  They are still on the more expensive side.  External HD are also made by Seagate and Maxtor with great warranties (5yr, 3yr) and make your data portable.\n\nIf you don't have wireless then get it.  You can by a combination Cable Modem/Router Gateway from Linksys for $150.  I run my laptop all over the house at great speed (I sit and the laptop runs...).  You can buy an unbelieveable wireless G card from CompUSA (two different brands) for $29.  I could find that on the street in a couple of hours!
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I have an Acer laptop, and i like it.... Intel or Amd are both good processors, I have an AMD,but I highly reccomend that you do NOT get a celeron processor, they work good for a couple months, then they are the slowest dang things.
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I did not see the motherboard, but of those two cpu's go with amd for sure, it has more cache making it faster. I saw another thing that could be better, the hard drive is ata100 and that is somewhat slow, for about the same price you could get a sata2 3.0gb/s. (your motherboard has to support it) What is this computer going to be used for? It would help to know.