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Buying a personal computer can be as difficult as buying a new car. No matter how much time you spend looking into, how many electronic dealers you visit, and how much haggling you've done on the price, you still may not be really certain that you've gotten a
good deal. You have good reasons to feel this uncertainty. Computers change at a faster rate than any other electronic equipment. An old car will most of the time get you where
you need to go, but a five year old computer may possibly be incompetent for your every day needs. Also, the average person doesn't have the technically knowledge enough to make an informed decision on the best mini-processor to buy, the right size for a hard drive, or how much memory. Just because buying a computer can be a difficult task doesn't mean you should throw in the towel and put yourself at the mercy of a salesman.
If you follow a few basic guidelines, you'll can be confident of making a wise purchase decision. So read on, as we review a few easy principles.
Computer's only have one main use; to run programs. Some of the programs call for more computing muscle than others. To figure out how power you'll need you, thus, you must first determine which programs you want to have running. For most computer buyers, this is a no-win situation. They think they can't buy a computer until they know what they want to do with it. But that's almost impossible, to determine right a way you
can't really know all of the uses there are for a computer until they use one. Most programs write out their minimum hardware requirements on the box. After looking at a few packages, it will start to be pretty clear to you that any...
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Advantages of owning a Personal Computer:
Word processing and document creation is quick and easyYou don't have to store so much paperwork (means more drawers full of old matchboxes & light bulbs!)Quick reference via the internet to almost any topic imaginableOnline encyclopedias and question / answer groups like this oneGames... good distraction from real life when you need it, and cheaper than a holiday!Easy storage for photographs, video and musicInfinitely reproduceable... you can back up a computer a thousand times if you want to, so nothing you do has to be irrecoverable.Anything you create can be deleted or modified at any timeAlmost all machines have upgradeable components and software.
Disadvantages of owning a Personal Computer:
Its easy to forget the time and spend far too long in front of it, especially playing games or looking up interesting things on the internet.You might loose friends / grip on reality / sanity, etc in the case of too much of the above!Some machines can be expensive to purchaseLaptop machines in particular are easily dropped / damagedNever-ending yearly licence agreements for anti-virus software (if you use the internet)You will never stop buying gadgets to plug into it... cameras, microphones, headsets, joysticks, mouse(es), keyboards, printers & ink cartridges, scanners, card readers, DVD re-re-re-rewriteable drives, U.S.B Flash drives, graphics slates & stilos, mobile phones, ipods, mp3 players, palm-tops, GPS devices, servers, routers, monitors, wireless dongles.you get the picture!
There is really very little to be said for the disadvantages of owning a P.C. You might use a little bit more electricity than you do already, but that's about it. There are people who hate computers but who still find time to play at least one game of patience on them a day!