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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 5018717" data-attributes="member: 70">I've got two &quot;primary&quot; 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, &amp; illustrator (plus Word &amp; Firefox &amp; 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 &amp; sketchup.Intel Core 2Duo CPU T5750 @2.00 GHz4 GB RAM64 BitWindows Vista300 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.&nbsp; Compaq Presario.AMD Athlon 64 processor3700+ 1.79 Ghz960 MB RAMWinXP + updates.hard drive around 250 GBMore 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</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 5018717, member: 70"] 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 [/QUOTE]

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