what is the fastest and most reliable computer system on the market today?
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dell is the best just call or log on to web site they biuld the computer to the way your going to use it
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The best?  Well, it'll cost you, but Falcon Northwest, VoodooPC and Hypersonic are probably the best out there.\n\nVoodooPC http://www.voodoopc.com/omen.aspx\n\nFalcon Northwest  http://www.falcon-nw.com/flash/\n\nHyperSonic   http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/2001/index.asp
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Get something reliable.  Check out CNET for reviews by editors and customers.  Toshiba and Fujitsu have great reliability.  The Lenovo Thinkpad (formerly IBM Thinkpad) is nice.  Get internal wireless, big RAM size, and a decent size HDD.  Don't get a Compaq, Dell, or HP.  Also, if you are considering a Mac, look at what software you will need and if it is available for Mac.  Then look at what it will cost to fix your Mac.  Is is worth it?  Probably not, but they are nice, just not compatible with everything.  Good luck.
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IBM may be the most reliable and expensive also. HP and Dell give reasonable price for a good Quality. In the middle, you find Toshiba  which gives a very good quality-price ratio. However, everyone of these companies produce good- and bad-quality laptops, since  the performance of a laptop depends on what is inside (the processor, graphics card, hard disk, RAM).\n\nTherefore, you should first look at your needs (and your budget also :) A good laptop for an average user should have:\n\n-A Centrino processor (Pentium M)\n- 512MB RAM\n- The hard disk size depends on what you store in your laptop.  If you will store a lot of movies and pictures then  you need at least 60 GB hard disk. If not, even 20 GB may  be enough. \n- If you intend to play video or 3D games in your laptop, then you need at least a graphics card that is not integrated in the mainboard with 128MB NOT-SHARED memory or more. If not, don't care about the graphics card.\n\nHope this helps.
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x60 from lenovo(formerly IBM) or Toshiba Protege m-400. And nothing can beat the reliability of toshiba.
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memory ,buss rate is faster , cpu is faster and everything is cheaper
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Personally, I prefer Ubuntu. It's easy to use and very stable, for servers or for the desktop. I think there's even a version specific for servers, but I'm not sure on that.
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Supercomputer? That term is a bit outdated.\nFollow this link and you should be able to find everything you need.
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First up, Intel.  The Intel Celeron or Celeron M on laptops is the slowest processor you can get.  Despite its speed of 1.4GHz+ it has less L1 and L2 cache of the Pentium D or Pentium 4.\n\nThe Pentium D or Pentium 4 for desktops are some of the fastest processors you can find, I said some, they are not THE fastest you can get.\n\nNow AMD, the AMD Sempron is the lowest end AMD processor you can buy.  It is faster than a comparable Intel Celeron chip but it is not as fast as a Pentium 4 or D, again due to its limited L1/L2 cache size.\n\nThe fastest processors you can buy are AMD Athlon 64 or Athlon 64x2 processors.  Especially for high-end multi-media and gaming applications.  The AMD Athlon 64x2's are dual core processors which can run two processes at the same time independent of each other.  It's like having two processors on one chip.  These are THE fastest you can buy.  But you will not find the x2 chips on laptops only the AMD Athlon 64, Sempron or Turion (their version of a mobile chip).\n\nSpeed is not only dictated by processor clock speed, it also depends on the amount of memory it has and whether or not it has a dedicated or shared memory graphics card.  Generally 512MB of memory is good, 1GB of memory is all the better.  A dedicated graphics card in a laptop has its own memory and does not share it with the main memory or ram.  A shared memory video card will take between 32MB and 128MB of main memory to use as video memory, clearly this does nothing to improve performance.\n\nIf you can get a laptop with an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ or better and a dedicated video card and 512MB or 1GB of memory.  You won't be dissapointed.\n\nSome are saying that clock speed is the most important, I assure you that is not the case.  Clock speed tells you how much raw power the processor has but does nothing to tell you how much "work" it can do in one clock cycle.  For exmaple an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ can do more "work" per clock cycle than a faster Pentium 4 at 3.0GHz even though the Athlon operates in the area of 2.2GHz, this is due to the fact it has a larger cache and a better architecture but that is going way beyond the question you asked and might end up confusing someone.\n\nFor a comparison of 77 processors see Tomshardware below.\n\nHope this helped.
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This is an incredibly difficult question to answer, as you do not completely state your needs.  Programming, you said?  As in Java applets, Large C++ applications, or maybe asp/jsp type web applications, or gaming.\n\nIt also has a lot to do with taste.  But if I were building a system for myself today, I would go with the following (or at least similar).\n\n\nMotherboard - Asus A8N 32-SLI-Deluxe NVIDIA Socket 939 ATX Motherboard / Audio / PCI Express / SLI / Dual Gigabit LAN / S/PDIF / USB 2.0 / Serial ATA / Dual RAID\n\nProcessor - AMD Athlon 64 FX - 60.  Hands down, the fastest there is right now.  Dual Core for multitasking and 64 bits so you can develop for today and tomorrow \n\nRAM - 2GB\n\nGraphics Card - the nVidia on board the motherboard listed above will handle virtually anything you need.  You can spend more on a graphics card, but this is really more than you need for programming already.\n\nSpeed of Hard Drives - Using 7200 RPM SATA hard drives will suffice unless you have a database with millions upon millions of records, and if that is the case, it should reside on a separate server.  Configuring the drives in a RAID array will provide additional speed and security (Raid 0+1).\n\nSoftware - I like maintaining a dual boot system of Windows XP Server (more stable than Home or Professional) and Linux, this enables me to develop for both Windows (i.e. ASP) and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).  Visual Studio is the obvious (albeit expensive) option for Windows Development, unless you wish to develop an application that runs cross platform.  In that case, you may wish to look towards Eclipse which is both Cross Platform and Open Source, and a fantastic IDE.
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DELL 4500 is one of the most stable and reliable products DELL has ever produced. Though it is not the most easily upgradable computer, but it is one of those easy maintanence computers.
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Forget the IBM!  You don't need the headaches\n\nGo for the HP, or go for Dell
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Try Ubuntu, a free, Debian derived Linux-based operating system, available with both community and professional support.\n\nIt is suitable for both desktop and server use and supports PC (Intel x86), 64-bit PC (AMD64) and PowerPC (Apple iBook and Powerbook, G4 and G5) architectures.\n\nhttp://www.ubuntu.com
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Dell or HP. You have to put an eye on the support given by the manufacturer. Dell service is better and faster than HP, in case of a hardware failure, but HP hardware is better, so you decide between having a very good support and good hardware (this is DELL), or having a very good Hardware with regular support (this is HP). In my particular case, I prefer Dell, because of the support.\n\nHope this helps. Regards
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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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fastest notebook cpu on date is the intel core 2 duo t7600\n2.33 ghz clock speed\n667 mhz fsb\n4 mb l2 cache\n\n>> maybe u'll find them on tigerdirect & other stores in a few months time\n< presently only available on pre-built laptops >
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I would go with the PC100.   Here are the specs that I see:\n\nSystem Specs \n Type of system: Laptops \n Bus Architecture: PC Card (PCMCIA) \n Native OS: Windows 98/NT/2000 \n CPU Type: 900MHz Intel Mobile Celeron \n Comments: 100MHz FSB \nSystem Memory \n Standard Memory: 64 MB (removable) \n Maximum Memory: 512 MB \n Maximum Expansion: 2 sockets \n Comments: PC100/133 SDRAM SODIMMs  \n\nI check the price at http://www.CoastMemory.com\n256MB is $69.00\n\nGo for it.\n\nGood luck and Happy Computing!