I'm new, so please redirect me if I am posting in the wrong place.
Here are my needs for a new computer, OS: I care more about the written word than visuals. I check e-mail, surf the Internet - news junkie - Ny Times, Wash. Post, Wall Street Journal. Have never downloaded music - only listen to CDs on DVD drive. However, would like to listen to radio programs through the Internet and the occasional tv or video program. Stock quotes, etc., financial, maybe online banking. Don't buy much off Internet - maybe once a year. I'm not a gamer.
I am coming from a Gateway Profile 3 with Windows Millennium that has nearly died. ( I revived it somehow by reformatting the hard drive and now I can get on the Internet but my DVD player attached to monitor-hard drive is dead. )
I am thinking about buying a Dell 531 Desktop for $398. Specs: 17" Widescreen flat panel display, USB Keybd, USB Optical Mouse, AMD Sempron LE 1250 Processor, 2 GB memory, 160 GB Hard Drive, NVIDIA Ge Force 6150 LE Integrated Graphics, Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio and Dell Speakers. Windows Vista Home Premium OS, Microsoft Works 9.0, McAfee Security, 1 Yr lmtd warranty and 24/7 tech support.
I have a Canon Pixma MP 130 printer which I need to know if I can update drivers for. (I've been getting different answers on that - Canon Website states: No Additional Drivers Available???) Tech Support was going to charge me $9.99 to answer the question. I'd like to find a computer that I can still use the printer with because it is in good shape and I've never had problems with it.
Any advice would be appreciated. I'm new so I apologize if I have been too long-winded in my post.
Thanks!!!
Here are my needs for a new computer, OS: I care more about the written word than visuals. I check e-mail, surf the Internet - news junkie - Ny Times, Wash. Post, Wall Street Journal. Have never downloaded music - only listen to CDs on DVD drive. However, would like to listen to radio programs through the Internet and the occasional tv or video program. Stock quotes, etc., financial, maybe online banking. Don't buy much off Internet - maybe once a year. I'm not a gamer.
I am coming from a Gateway Profile 3 with Windows Millennium that has nearly died. ( I revived it somehow by reformatting the hard drive and now I can get on the Internet but my DVD player attached to monitor-hard drive is dead. )
I am thinking about buying a Dell 531 Desktop for $398. Specs: 17" Widescreen flat panel display, USB Keybd, USB Optical Mouse, AMD Sempron LE 1250 Processor, 2 GB memory, 160 GB Hard Drive, NVIDIA Ge Force 6150 LE Integrated Graphics, Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio and Dell Speakers. Windows Vista Home Premium OS, Microsoft Works 9.0, McAfee Security, 1 Yr lmtd warranty and 24/7 tech support.
I have a Canon Pixma MP 130 printer which I need to know if I can update drivers for. (I've been getting different answers on that - Canon Website states: No Additional Drivers Available???) Tech Support was going to charge me $9.99 to answer the question. I'd like to find a computer that I can still use the printer with because it is in good shape and I've never had problems with it.
Any advice would be appreciated. I'm new so I apologize if I have been too long-winded in my post.
Thanks!!!