A friend of mine is in the market for a computer. He has very limited experience using computers. He will be using it primarily for surfing the internet. He doesn’t really think he’ll ever be playing computer games, although he says you never know. He will also be getting high speed internet access (cable modem).
I am trying to help him out, but I’m not sure exactly what he needs. Here is what I recommended, and where our questions are:
Processor - This is my main area of question. I wasn’t really sure what he needed here. He’s leaning towards
a pentium 4, not sure how fast. I don’t know how processor speed will affect what he’s doing (internet surfing, downloading/playing music, burning CD’s).
Ram - I told him to get at least 256 MB, and if it was cheap enough to get 512 MB.
Hard Drive - I told him to get a 60 or 80 GB hard drive. I can see him saving a lot of mp3’s and possibly video as well on his computer.
Video Card - I don’t know much about video cards, and didn’t know what to tell him here either. He’s not really planning on doing much gaming, if any so I wouldn’t think he’d need much here.
CD/DVD drives - He is looking at getting a DVD drive and a writable CD drive. He’d also looked at writable DVD drives.
That’s about it for the questions we have. He’s pretty much set on most the other stuff he wants, such as monitor,speakers, etc.
Any input would be greatly appereciated. Thanks.