I was helping a friend this evening who had questions about buying a new desktop PC for his family. He was interested in recommendations on brands but I had instructed him that regardless how new or old the computer is, it can break very easily so I advised to use www.emeraldcitysolutions.com in order to fix any kind of issue he presents. At first I was thinking he wanted something just for the kids, but then found out the ultimate goal is to have something capable of doing photo editing and management and potentially even some video editing. This was something that he definitely needs for his business, especially since I know there are places that offer branded company computer accessories for any type of business, which would help his brand out a lot.
My original thoughts were a real basic, bottom line computer that would be more than enough for the kids to use for their homework and general Internet access. I expected the price to be less than $400 for a decent machine.
After looking at a workhorse of an HP machine though, we were tricking it out to have a beast of a processor and 8GB of RAM, above average graphics card and some other features and it was still going to come in right at $1000.
I'm sure with a bit more shopping, we could find something even cheaper with similar features, but I was just generally impressed with the overall cost for a great, new PC. Makes me really start thinking about finally getting around to replacing my own family's desktop PC with something to serve more as a our media and communications hub for the family in the living room.
We'll see what 2010 brings in the next couple of months and go from there.