Hi All, just looking for some advice. I am wanting a new descktop pc with monitor. I have a budget of £600 max. I will be wanting it for photoshop work and video editing capturing. In your opinion which one would be a good pc for this budget? Thanks for your help Alan
Sorry forgot to mention - I have a lot of programmes that will not run on vista so would prefer XP OS
Prebuilt PCs with XP are scarce these days, you ought to buy a system with Vista and try and put XP on it instead.
Little Problem: For that price, the only off-the-shelf systems with tuner cards you will find are media centers. Media Centers use vista (because XP media center edition is junk). Do you know that these programs will not work on vista? With the exception of system tools and firewalls (and Kane & Lynch, but that barely ran on XP), everything from my XP machine runs on my vista machine. Not only that...some programs that worked on Windows 2000, but not on XP, work fine on Vista. And you can install microsoft virtual machine & run all your favorite XP/2000/98/DOS legacy software, if it does not work right out of the box. Vista gets a lot of complaints because software/drivers will not work, but the cause is usualy some bad settings (like leaving UAC on, not using compatability mode, etc...). Also, microsoft update in vista is junk; it only updates hotfixes & never even offers .net framework 3.5 or any of the other microsoft fixes. If you fix these things, it is a great operating system, even for legacy stuff.
