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I've got two "primary" computers and one significantly older one.
I'm trying to understand what my best courses of action are for updating and upgrading the computers.
No computer games on any of them.
My primary computer is a 1-year old HP Pavilion dv9700 laptop which I use for school. Common programs are AutoCAD, Photoshop, Sketchup, & illustrator (plus Word & Firefox & etc). I don't have graphic card info to hand right now; it would be whatever was installed at the factory. It works well but occasionally chokes on large files in Illustrator & sketchup.
Intel Core 2Duo CPU T5750 @2.00 GHz
4 GB RAM
64 Bit
Windows Vista
300 GB hard drive (mostly full; need to transfer stuff out)
I'm guessing more memory, and upgrading to Win 7. Beyond that, I don't know. Graphics programs are absolutely essential to what I'm doing, though, so the more I can do in that regard the better.
The desktop is a Black Friday special from 2 (?) years ago.
Compaq Presario.
AMD Athlon 64 processor
3700+
1.79 Ghz
960 MB RAM
WinXP + updates.
hard drive around 250 GB
More memory, clearly. I'm not sure how much it can take. Ideally I'd set this up so I can work on either it or the laptop, but not sure what this can handle. Looks like Win 7 wants a minimum of 1 GB memory, so that would need an upgrade (not that it wouldn't otherwise).
There's also a 6-year old Toshiba laptop that needs to be reformatted, but otherwise has run flawlessly for 6 years. Wondering if it can be made into a netbook or something at some point. Runs Win XP with updates.
Thanks!
Crossposted from Circvs Maximvs
I'm trying to understand what my best courses of action are for updating and upgrading the computers.
No computer games on any of them.
My primary computer is a 1-year old HP Pavilion dv9700 laptop which I use for school. Common programs are AutoCAD, Photoshop, Sketchup, & illustrator (plus Word & Firefox & etc). I don't have graphic card info to hand right now; it would be whatever was installed at the factory. It works well but occasionally chokes on large files in Illustrator & sketchup.
Intel Core 2Duo CPU T5750 @2.00 GHz
4 GB RAM
64 Bit
Windows Vista
300 GB hard drive (mostly full; need to transfer stuff out)
I'm guessing more memory, and upgrading to Win 7. Beyond that, I don't know. Graphics programs are absolutely essential to what I'm doing, though, so the more I can do in that regard the better.
The desktop is a Black Friday special from 2 (?) years ago.
Compaq Presario.
AMD Athlon 64 processor
3700+
1.79 Ghz
960 MB RAM
WinXP + updates.
hard drive around 250 GB
More memory, clearly. I'm not sure how much it can take. Ideally I'd set this up so I can work on either it or the laptop, but not sure what this can handle. Looks like Win 7 wants a minimum of 1 GB memory, so that would need an upgrade (not that it wouldn't otherwise).
There's also a 6-year old Toshiba laptop that needs to be reformatted, but otherwise has run flawlessly for 6 years. Wondering if it can be made into a netbook or something at some point. Runs Win XP with updates.
Thanks!
Crossposted from Circvs Maximvs