which desktop pc is the fastest?
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Make one. This is a broad question.
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Desk top computers are the way to go.  You will get a faster computer than a laptop at the same price.  Laptops are usually 1.5 times more expensive than the desktop conterpart in terms of specifications.  You are definiately paying for your portablity.  Laptops are good for home or office use.  They are not recommended for gaming.\n\nThe best overall desktop type of computer is an eMachine.  They are well built and are not expensive.  They even have a unique program that automatically fixes any erros that windows likes to give people that cannot be found on any other computer.  It is best used as a home, office, or internet computer.\n\nIf you are looking for a gaming computer, the best way is to build your own.  There are no "cheaper" brands that are really gamer friendly.  The best gaming computer would be Alienware.  They build computers specifically for gamers.  If you have the money, this is the way to go.\n\nHp is ok, and is usable.  Hp is more geared toward picture management, home video optimization, media, ect.\n\nDO NOT USE:\nCompaq\nDell\n\nThese computers are "cookie cutters."  They are produced en mass and are not well built.  The components that they use are not optimized for the computer.  Cheaper is not always better.  For example, the RAM is not fast enough to keep up the the CPU or vice versa.  And what I hear from other people, Dell's customer support sucks.\n\nVOTE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH!
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Well that is a little bit vague, bit I will go with fastest/most powerful as what you meant.  That would probably be the Radeon X1950XTX, but that will change on Wednesday when the GeForce 8800GTX comes out, it will blow everything else away.
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My vote goes for Google Desktop.
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Here are the fastest processors available, from fastest to slowest: Core 2 Duo, Athlon 64 X2's, Athlon 64's, Pentium D's, AMD Semprons, and last, and least, the Celerons.
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id say 512 ram+ 1.7ghz(at least) that should make u work really fast
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c. Supercomputer\n\nTop500 supercomputer list is now full of culster systems.\nMany of them are cheap and definitely much cheaper than classic supercomputer solutions.
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Have a look at this testing site with benchmarked components including graphics cards\nhttp://www.reportlabs.com/testbed/
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Buy a Dell they have a better reputation.  PC's run XP, they no longer really come with MS-DOS or Windows 95/98 (which ran on top of MS-DOS) any more!
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The new Intel Duo-something. I have an AMD processor in this one though and it seems to be pretty fast.
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Univac will blow away a standard PC. Measurement of PC is GHZ while UNIVAC is in FLOPS orFloating Point Operations Per Second. Pc is only miniflops while univac is in Teraflops so it's like 1000more times faster than PC.
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I LOVE my HP (... desktop)!!
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PC !\nwith windows XP home edition.
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any laptop with a fast CPU & big hard drive w/alienware
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Do you mean which processor gets the most work done per second/per minute/per hour, or which processor runs at the highest speed?  If you meant which processor gets the most work done, in the least amount of time, it's the AMD FX-60.  If you meant which processor runs at the highest Mhz, it's Intel's 3.8Ghz Pentium.\n\nAnd if you're talking about raw power, no matter how expensive, any of the newer RISC processors is much faster than either of the above processors.
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pc world they have one fo £400 its by advent and it is the best ive seen from a retailer. it has 1gb of ram a 100gb hardrive and loads of extras snap it up quick.
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Starting with your second question, a desktop will last you longer, it can be upgraded more, you can change the motherboard, processor, graphics, sound card, everything.  With a laptop your pretty much stuck with what you get, though you can add memory and upgrade the hard drive but that's about it.\n\nI'd go for the desktop for performance reasons, of course I have three desktops and two laptops.  I go for mainstream laptops and I just build my own desktops for performance.