TruckDrivingFool
Lieutenant Commander
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Lately I'm running into a full hard drive on my old desktop so an upgrade may be coming soon. I'd been looking at the cheap eMachines CPUs (don't really need a monitor but the bigger ones are glittery) that Walmart sells. Then I got sidetracked into looking at all in ones. I like the idea of freeing up the floor space and possibly some desk space but it seems like the AIOs anywhere even close in price I'd have to give up processor speed and storage.
FWIW my right now is a 5,6 maybe 7 year old Gateway inter4 3Ghz, 200GB HD, and 2.87GB ram. I know the cheapest upgrade would be to just get a bigger hard drive but this old Gateway is probably due for retirement anyway. Also I'm neither here nor there on the touch aspect as I almost think I'd rather stay w/ a mouse and keyboard anyway.
So I come to some that I hope are more tech than me asking am I missing the boat on some fantasicness or are my performance opinions pretty well founded? Are there some AOI machines in the same CPU price range I should be looking at?
I wouldn't mind spending more than the WM cheapies on an upgrade but don't want to pay through the nose for space saving and less perfomance.
FWIW my right now is a 5,6 maybe 7 year old Gateway inter4 3Ghz, 200GB HD, and 2.87GB ram. I know the cheapest upgrade would be to just get a bigger hard drive but this old Gateway is probably due for retirement anyway. Also I'm neither here nor there on the touch aspect as I almost think I'd rather stay w/ a mouse and keyboard anyway.
So I come to some that I hope are more tech than me asking am I missing the boat on some fantasicness or are my performance opinions pretty well founded? Are there some AOI machines in the same CPU price range I should be looking at?
I wouldn't mind spending more than the WM cheapies on an upgrade but don't want to pay through the nose for space saving and less perfomance.