first of all.
Dont get a MAC!
Your problem lies with the Dell, why buy a POS Dell in the first place?
You want to go Mac yet Dell are the same mass produced Pieces of crap.
Put a comp together yourself, save urself half the money and get a computer 3 times as good as a mac will ever be.
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worked minus the screen issue. reply posted on 30-6-2011 @ 08:06 AM by yourmamaknows
reply to post by Benevolent Heretic
My Dell works fine. Of course, I'm running PCLinuxOS 2010 on it. Windows xp pro was eaten by a virus. Bought it used, no restore disc. Now have a dual boot, Linux and windows xp home for games.
Also have Defend Reloaded for DOS games on the windows partition.
My Dell works fine. Of course, I'm running PCLinuxOS 2010 on it. Windows xp pro was eaten by a virus. Bought it used, no restore disc. Now have a dual boot, Linux and windows xp home for games.
Also have Defend Reloaded for DOS games on the windows partition.
reply posted on 30-6-2011 @ 08:13 AM by grey580
reply to post by Benevolent Heretic
Computers are like any other device. They break down from time to time.
Whatever the reason I suggest you find yourself a computer geek who can take a look at your current pc.
Now as for the Mac. I have a iMac at home. Good machine and looks really nice in the living room.
Of course your paying double for the honor of owning one. You could get a better machine for probably half the price. But if that doesn't bother you then go for the Mac. You won't be disappointed if you get one.
Dells are good machines. We have alot of them here at work. Hell we even have some dell P4 machines that are working just fine. So I wouldn't go putting Dell down.
Now make sure that whatever computer you do get that you get the best bang for your buck and try to buy most advanced pc you can so that you won't be obsolete in a year.
Try to buy a pc with the following.
Processor: Intel Core i7
Ram: 4gigs at minimum. 8gigs would be better and 16 if you can afford it.
Hard Drive: 1TB at min
Video Card: Nvidia. When comparing nvidia cards you want to get the highest in the series. If the card is in the 300 series you want something higher than 350.
Computers are like any other device. They break down from time to time.
Whatever the reason I suggest you find yourself a computer geek who can take a look at your current pc.
Now as for the Mac. I have a iMac at home. Good machine and looks really nice in the living room.
Of course your paying double for the honor of owning one. You could get a better machine for probably half the price. But if that doesn't bother you then go for the Mac. You won't be disappointed if you get one.
Dells are good machines. We have alot of them here at work. Hell we even have some dell P4 machines that are working just fine. So I wouldn't go putting Dell down.
Now make sure that whatever computer you do get that you get the best bang for your buck and try to buy most advanced pc you can so that you won't be obsolete in a year.
Try to buy a pc with the following.
Processor: Intel Core i7
Ram: 4gigs at minimum. 8gigs would be better and 16 if you can afford it.
Hard Drive: 1TB at min
Video Card: Nvidia. When comparing nvidia cards you want to get the highest in the series. If the card is in the 300 series you want something higher than 350.
reply posted on 30-6-2011 @ 09:14 AM by Klassified
reply to post by Benevolent Heretic
Sorry to hear about your problems BH. I have to agree with Grey. Get that machine to a tech you trust, and find out whats wrong with it. Personally, I would steer clear of Best Buy and Staples. I'm constantly fixing their screwups.
As to buying a machine. Dell is probably the best retail Windows machine on the market right now. The mistake most folks make is buying the cheapest thing they can get their hands on. Order straight from Dell, and order something in their XPS Line. The XPS7100 with a 6 core processor, 8gigabytes of ram, ATI 5670 1 gigabyte video card, and 1 terrabyte hard drive, is a nice unit at a reasonable cost. Grey's intel suggestion is also good. That would be the XPS 8300 line.
Considering a laptop as a desktop replacement? XPS laptops are also nice machines. Consider a 17.3 model.
I have no problems with Windows. It runs great for me. But I'm a geek too.
Also, Macs are nice machines. I like them. It's all about personal preference there.
ETA: Mattrat's idea was good too, BTW. I have several people still using machines I built years ago.
ETA 2: I didn't mean that to come off sounding like a commercial for Dell. I promise, I don't get commission.
But in the many years I've been in
this industry, I've had fewer hardware problems with Dell than any other brand. So that's what I recommend. But to each their own.
Sorry to hear about your problems BH. I have to agree with Grey. Get that machine to a tech you trust, and find out whats wrong with it. Personally, I would steer clear of Best Buy and Staples. I'm constantly fixing their screwups.
As to buying a machine. Dell is probably the best retail Windows machine on the market right now. The mistake most folks make is buying the cheapest thing they can get their hands on. Order straight from Dell, and order something in their XPS Line. The XPS7100 with a 6 core processor, 8gigabytes of ram, ATI 5670 1 gigabyte video card, and 1 terrabyte hard drive, is a nice unit at a reasonable cost. Grey's intel suggestion is also good. That would be the XPS 8300 line.
Considering a laptop as a desktop replacement? XPS laptops are also nice machines. Consider a 17.3 model.
I have no problems with Windows. It runs great for me. But I'm a geek too.
Also, Macs are nice machines. I like them. It's all about personal preference there.
ETA: Mattrat's idea was good too, BTW. I have several people still using machines I built years ago.
ETA 2: I didn't mean that to come off sounding like a commercial for Dell. I promise, I don't get commission.
But in the many years I've been in
this industry, I've had fewer hardware problems with Dell than any other brand. So that's what I recommend. But to each their own.edit on
6/30/2011 by Klassified because: Corrections and ETA's
reply posted on 30-6-2011 @ 11:01 AM by autowrench
reply to post by Benevolent Heretic
This sounds to me like a graphics driver problem. Windows loves to install their own Microsoft certified drivers for all of your hardware, but Dell has different ideas, and configures their computers to accept only Dell certified drivers. You can go to the Dell support site and download the drivers, or, as an alternative, Download an install
Device Doctor,
I have been using this little free program to install hardware drivers for about a years now, it rarely fails. If you are so inclined, you can go here and get yourself a DVD of drivers and utilities for Dell computers.
This sounds to me like a graphics driver problem. Windows loves to install their own Microsoft certified drivers for all of your hardware, but Dell has different ideas, and configures their computers to accept only Dell certified drivers. You can go to the Dell support site and download the drivers, or, as an alternative, Download an install
Device Doctor,
I have been using this little free program to install hardware drivers for about a years now, it rarely fails. If you are so inclined, you can go here and get yourself a DVD of drivers and utilities for Dell computers.
reply posted on 30-6-2011 @ 12:05 PM by grey580
reply to post by Benevolent Heretic
Well OS X is a Unix 03 compliant operating system. So if you are familiar with Linux you can along with OS X.
And as far as learning a new system. Don't worry. My wife, who has always used a PC, is working with our iMac just fine. In fact I would say that the Mac is easier to use than a Windows based system.
I've recommended to several people that they switch to the mac. Everyone that has made the switch loves it. And this is the feedback I'm getting from non-tech savvy people.
I suggest that you head on over to a Mac store and take some time to actually use a Mac so that you can get a feel for the OS. I think you'll see that it's pretty cool.
Other than the OS X I suggest Windows 7. By far the best Windows OS. They learned from the Vista debacle and developed a great operating system.
Well OS X is a Unix 03 compliant operating system. So if you are familiar with Linux you can along with OS X.
And as far as learning a new system. Don't worry. My wife, who has always used a PC, is working with our iMac just fine. In fact I would say that the Mac is easier to use than a Windows based system.
I've recommended to several people that they switch to the mac. Everyone that has made the switch loves it. And this is the feedback I'm getting from non-tech savvy people.
I suggest that you head on over to a Mac store and take some time to actually use a Mac so that you can get a feel for the OS. I think you'll see that it's pretty cool.
Other than the OS X I suggest Windows 7. By far the best Windows OS. They learned from the Vista debacle and developed a great operating system.
reply posted on 30-6-2011 @ 12:58 PM by dbates
Have you logged in with a different PC just to make sure it wasn't some wacky ATS account setting. Did you accidentally turn on reading compatible
mode for visual impaired? Do all web sites look like this or just ATS?
If it really is the video card and you don't want to change it out, then there's nothing wrong with getting another Dell if you like them. I'll be the first to tell you that a Mac is pretty cool but unless you're planning on doing something like graphic design or video editing there's no point in spending twice as much.
Compare these prices:
iMac (Starts at $1,199.00)
Dell all in one ($599, $699 for touch screen)
I bought two of the Dells for my kids (17 & 15) for Christmas. They're pretty cool machines and they both love them. Just pull them out of the box plug them in and turn them on. Nothing to hook up at all and so far they're awesome. These come with Windows 7 which has some pretty cool features. My pc is still on XP.
Opinions vary of course, but that's mine.
If it really is the video card and you don't want to change it out, then there's nothing wrong with getting another Dell if you like them. I'll be the first to tell you that a Mac is pretty cool but unless you're planning on doing something like graphic design or video editing there's no point in spending twice as much.
Compare these prices:
iMac (Starts at $1,199.00)
Dell all in one ($599, $699 for touch screen)
I bought two of the Dells for my kids (17 & 15) for Christmas. They're pretty cool machines and they both love them. Just pull them out of the box plug them in and turn them on. Nothing to hook up at all and so far they're awesome. These come with Windows 7 which has some pretty cool features. My pc is still on XP.
Opinions vary of course, but that's mine.
edit on 30-6-2011 by dbates because: (no reason given)
reply posted on 30-6-2011 @ 01:11 PM by Benevolent Heretic
reply to post by dbates
Thanks dbates.
ALL websites look different. My desktop looked different.
When I turned on my computer today, instead of doing the regular booting up and everything, there was a teeny-tiny dialog box saying it couldn't find my desktop folder... I called my husband in to have a look and he clicked OK and rebooted and the box didn't come up a second time, but my desktop did load, though it looked different.
I got the desktop to look right, but then when I opened ATS it looked like the screen shot above.
The text on my toolbars is all VERY TINY and different. I suppose I could try to get that back... It's just very weird.
This is a fairly new computer so if I can get it fixed, I would love to do that. It's a studio XPS and has lots of good audio and video features...
Thanks dbates.
ALL websites look different. My desktop looked different.
When I turned on my computer today, instead of doing the regular booting up and everything, there was a teeny-tiny dialog box saying it couldn't find my desktop folder... I called my husband in to have a look and he clicked OK and rebooted and the box didn't come up a second time, but my desktop did load, though it looked different.
I got the desktop to look right, but then when I opened ATS it looked like the screen shot above.
The text on my toolbars is all VERY TINY and different. I suppose I could try to get that back... It's just very weird.
This is a fairly new computer so if I can get it fixed, I would love to do that. It's a studio XPS and has lots of good audio and video features...
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