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I'm shopping for a new computer, what would you recommend. I would like a media set up, you know, edit pics, video, music, etc.
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pricepoint would help alot 
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Something reasonable.. but can get the job done.. Price something you wouldnt mind paying...
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Check out MSN Shopping I found notebooks on there for 550 with integrated wireless for my company. Also Dell is having a good sale right now. shipping today is my Insperion 1000. Base model but will do everything i need it to do. Troy
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of corse you wanna go with a pc avoid macs like the a sickness (just kiding sorta)
best advice i can give you is unless you wanna built it your self go to best buy or curcuit city and look at the media center pcs and find one thats in your price range
as for what i recomend
try go go with an amd 64 bit prossessor if not atleast an amd
no less than 512mb ram recomended a gig
as for a video card go with something like a ati 9600 or better
that il get a machine that will last you
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Purchase from a store close to you. Stuffing Computer parts in a box for shipping is time consuming and expensive.
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Pentium 4 running at 2.5 or higher
Motherboard that CAN take 1 meg or More of RAM
Windows XP home
USB 2.0 High Speed
Firewire
Power supply 400 Watts - 450 Watts
512 k of RAM installed
Hard drive - 100 Gig - Video files are large
DVD burner - they are so cheap now and they still do CD's
Sound Card - Creative Audigy 2
Video card - Thats a tough one - todays card will serve well for Media systems, let your pocket book decide
Monitor - Flat panel - the thin one, CTR's a so BIG in back
Software
Start with the stuff that comes with the machine, and upgrade/purchase as you see a need in the area you use the most.
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Originally posted by svtsoboss:
I'm shopping for a new computer, what would you recommend. I would like a media set up, you know, edit pics, video, music, etc.
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I would say get an Athlon, 64bit if you can afford it. To get that 64bit, all of the other stuff in the computer needs to be top of the line (moboard, ram, etc) to make it worth while, this will drive up the price substantially. Also, you would have to get a 64bit ver of windows.
Assuming you will stay with a 32bit processor, get an AMD Athlon 3200. You want AT LEAST 1gig of RAM, 512 won't even begin to cut it for video/picture editing.
As for hard drives... You want 10,000rpm drives if possible. I would say about 200gigs should be pleanty. You can do it with multiple drives for safety's sake in a SCSI arrangement, or just save all your work to one drive while the other drive is for the programs etc.
Video card is the most important part, and as far as video editing goes, its what I know the least about. I do know that an X800 would be the best as far as video output, but I dont think that has the inputs that you need. Possibly get the X800 with a separate card for the inputs?
Also, you want to make sure you get FireWire ports either on the motherboard, or with a separate card for the downloading of Video from a video camera or digital camera that supports it.
Hope I was some help, if you need anything let me know! -Nick
EDIT, REPLY TO ABOVE:
-You want XP Pro, NOT home
-I would go higher than 450watts, with the best quality power supply I can find.
-DVD Dual layer burners are available now, media will come down in price soon.
-As for the monitor, CRT will save you so much money to put where it needs to go (the computer itself) that I would stay away from flat panel. Also, they are not optimal for video editing or gaming.
Finally, I would ALWAYS order online; especially if I was putting the computer together myself. Order from a reputable place (check pricewatch and resellerratings.com) NewEgg.com has consistantly had the best prices and service for me. You will save so much money from ordering online its insane to not.
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check out www.ibuypower.com if your not up for building your own computer. Get AMD, 1 gig of ram, if your going to do lots of video editing, 2 gigs, get sata hard drives, if you are going to do light editing, 150 gigs will be fine, then medium editing, you might want more, and heavy editing go up towards 400 gigs, you'll be surprised how fast your hard drive fills up, 120 minutes of raw wakeboarding video was around 30 gigs (keep in mind i was using the highest settings). Get a Video card with video in and out, so you can get video from any source. Asus makes the best board in my experince for both Intel and AMD. Since your going all out, get the sound blaster audigy 2 for your sound card. Get a dvd burner, or wait a couple months till the burners the will burn a label onto the disc. I think a 17 inch lcd flat screen will be enough. key board and moune arnt as important, logitech is the way to go. Win xp pro is a must. im trying to think ive missed any thing...naw dont think so, oh, im assuming the computer comes with firewire and USB 2.0.
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Originally posted by WestCoastAjax:
Purchase from a store close to you. Stuffing Computer parts in a box for shipping is time consuming and expensive.
Min
Pentium 4 running at 2.5 or higher
Motherboard that CAN take 1 meg or More of RAM
Windows XP home
USB 2.0 High Speed
Firewire
Power supply 400 Watts - 450 Watts
512 k of RAM installed
Hard drive - 100 Gig - Video files are large
DVD burner - they are so cheap now and they still do CD's
Sound Card - Creative Audigy 2
Video card - Thats a tough one - todays card will serve well for Media systems, let your pocket book decide
Monitor - Flat panel - the thin one, CTR's a so BIG in back
Software
Start with the stuff that comes with the machine, and upgrade/purchase as you see a need in the area you use the most.
i shurly hope by meg you mean gig
pentium 4 is a 32 bit prossessor
the next version of windows will be 64bit
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