| Sky- are you keeping up at all with the pc industry? Low end pc's are now offered with 512 mb of ram. 2 gb is pretty much standard at this point. Windows Vista is a resource hog.
$1000 will get the buyer a high range desktop if he shops wisely and doesn't pay for brand name with useless support. I have always assembled PCs myself and find them to be far superior as far as reliability goes, in comparison with paying for a brand name.
If the OP does go ahead and buy a pc with 512 mb of ram, how long is it really gonna last him before he needs to upgrade? Why not get the most for your money, shop around and get the best deal instead of settling for something low to mid ranged that will need to be upgrades in a year. |