I currently have a Sony Vaio PCV-RC360DS (866mhz, 512MB RAM, 2 hard drives total 120GB, ATI vid card, 4-port USB 2.0 card, dvd drive, 52x cdr drive). Nothing great but has lasted me a long time.
My friend picked up an eMachine from Best Buy on Black Friday for $120 (computer and monitor). He's going to give me the model number later today so I can see all of its specs but he says it is a 3.0Ghz Celeron. I'm not a fan of Celerons but I'm thinking it might be beneficial to me considering what I currently have.
The L2 cache on my Vaio is 256kb. I'm guessin the Celeron is at least that much.
Does anyone think it would be worth it to dish out the $120 for the eMachine? I'm not a gamer. I mostly use my comp for internet, occassionally photoshop, and sound editing (recording hour to 2 hour long DJ sets).
I'm leaning toward the eMachine just because I should be able to upgrade some things in the long run to make it last longer. I might even buy a Firewire card because I plan on getting the Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB hard drive with Firewire soon.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks for the time, too.
My friend picked up an eMachine from Best Buy on Black Friday for $120 (computer and monitor). He's going to give me the model number later today so I can see all of its specs but he says it is a 3.0Ghz Celeron. I'm not a fan of Celerons but I'm thinking it might be beneficial to me considering what I currently have.
The L2 cache on my Vaio is 256kb. I'm guessin the Celeron is at least that much.
Does anyone think it would be worth it to dish out the $120 for the eMachine? I'm not a gamer. I mostly use my comp for internet, occassionally photoshop, and sound editing (recording hour to 2 hour long DJ sets).
I'm leaning toward the eMachine just because I should be able to upgrade some things in the long run to make it last longer. I might even buy a Firewire card because I plan on getting the Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB hard drive with Firewire soon.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks for the time, too.