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Originally Posted by SeaKing
I have a 13 or 14 year old Dell. It was an XPS desktop. 2 drive bays and loaded with stuff I never use these days. 100MB Iomega, 3 1/2 inch floppy.
The Ram has been increased from 128 to 768MB. The (about) 12GB system drive to 120GB and the 2nd bay has a 320GB in it. Added USB2, Firewire, Ethernet, and some other stuff. Still has a 450Mhz 1 core pentium. I thought of changing the cpu, but I was told there was a motherboard problem. Only has a CD drive on it.
Still it will do most of what I want with certain exceptions.
I have moved my Small Business TAX program to my ladyfriends Toshiba.
I normally have "Flash" cut off to help with the speed.
I use GOM which is adaptable to old machines when it plays video, but I still miss out on the quick stuff, so I don't play video on it much.
I have noticed that my 12Mbps internet feed only comes in at 5 or 6MB on a direct wire to my computer, but on the Toshiba which is actually on the wireless router, it will be 10 or 11 MB. Other visiting machines like a Mac Book Pro also get 10 or 11MB.
So my computer itself cuts down the speed of the internet.
MS Office or Google Docs work fine.
I could have bought 6 or 7 computers during the lifetime of that machine. That is money that has gone to other things.
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If I were you I would blow the dust of your wallet and enjoy the latest and greatest.
just my 3 cents.