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Old 17-07-2008, 06:19 PM
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Default laptop/pc people . what do all the numbers mean ?????

after a laptop now , just a cheap one .

i want to be able to get on the net wireless , store and download music , make cd's up etc .....

what is the RAM , GB and GHZ fihures all mean ??

and what is a notebook , notebook laptop and laptop ? what makes these 3 different ????

i was looking at round the £300-£350 mark .

i found this one

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-...6316726&sr=1-2

, similar to the one i got the kids at xmas from tesco's . think theres was £350 and it was a acer aspire 5310 but they dont do it no more
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Originally Posted by woodz77
after a laptop now , just a cheap one .

i want to be able to get on the net wireless , store and download music , make cd's up etc .....

what is the RAM , GB and GHZ fihures all mean ??

and what is a notebook , notebook laptop and laptop ? what makes these 3 different ????

i was looking at round the £300-£350 mark .

i found this one

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-...6316726&sr=1-2

, similar to the one i got the kids at xmas from tesco's . think theres was £350 and it was a acer aspire 5310 but they dont do it no more

Yes Get it. Excellent spec for the money. It will do more than you need it for. Thats all you need to know
Old 17-07-2008, 06:33 PM
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looks good for spec, but being a I.T. manager I always check the warranty, as its intel based you should get 2 years trouble free usage, but check it has a 2 year warranty
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RAM - Random Access Memory. The more of this, the faster a PC will run. The lower it is, the more sluggish it will be

GB - GigaByte. A measure of storage volume for data. In this instance it will refer to the Hard Drive. The more GB the hard drive has, the more data (music, pics, video's, documents, programmes, etc) you will be able to store on it

gHz - GigaHertZ. A measure of speed at which a processor (CPU) runs at. The higher the number in front, the faster it will run. CPU's are a bit more involved than just a number tho - a 2.8gHz Intel P4 won't run as fast (in real world terms) as a 2.0gHz Core Two Duo processor.

Notebook, notebook computer, laptop - all the same thing in reality.

What you want is a medium spec machine for what you want to do with it.

Something like a Dell Vostro (13.3" screen or 15.4" screen can EASILY be had for £300 with a decent spec....
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