I need to get a new computer and i was wondering what you guys and gals would suggest. i will be running a mimaki plotter, coreldraw X3, photoshop CS2 and illistrator. when i bought my plotter i got casmate pro 6.52 but i will be switching to something more updated soon. what would you recommend. thanks for any replys in advance. also should it be desktop or laptop. i like the laptop idea but i don't know how well it will work. also i would like to keep the cost down to a minimal. thanks again
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what do you use?
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Air Art Girl
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I can't find the link but, there is a new merchant member that is building computers for our business, equipment and software needs. Someone know where the link is?
Service Sign Co
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Johm M. 8th row down in the new member welcome He's a Merchant member
Fred Weiss
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Here's a link to John M. He hasn't supplied a merchant banner yet.
Ken
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A desktop system will be less expensive. I can hardly believe the cheap prices available now.
You don't have to go " state of the art"..knock it back 2 or 3 pegs...
A 2 gigahertz CPU, 2 gigs of ram, 200 gigs of hard drive space..try to get an expandable system..more of the above allowable..USB 2..THere's just a wide range of boxes that will do this now for very reasonable cost. Under a thousand bucks..you will have a kik-ass computer..
Cheers!
Ken
You don't have to go " state of the art"..knock it back 2 or 3 pegs...
A 2 gigahertz CPU, 2 gigs of ram, 200 gigs of hard drive space..try to get an expandable system..more of the above allowable..USB 2..THere's just a wide range of boxes that will do this now for very reasonable cost. Under a thousand bucks..you will have a kik-ass computer..
Cheers!
Ken
thanks for all the info. i called around and for something to be built is costly. so i was talking to some of my nerdy friends and they suggested to build my own. they gave me a list of things i need and told me where to go but could not really suggest what i should get. like what kind of graphix card or mother board. so does anyone know what kind of mother board they have or could anyone suggest one. also a graphix card. everything else i should have covered. thanks
ok i bought this sign busisness from a friend and he came over to help me hook it up to my computer. well my computer did not have the port my mimaki hooks up to. so this is what started all this computer junk. now im building one and i can not find a mother board with the port it looks like this and from what i found on the internet it is a serial port but i plan on buying everything off of www.zipzoomfly.com and i cant find one. does anyone know what i should be looking for in computer terms when looking at mother boards. thanks again and here is the pic.
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gvgraphics
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Most have the serial port on them. It just isn't listed in the specs because they are standard.
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=247085
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=247085
Cadmn
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think 10 bucks & worthless Or 35 & works but as stated serial ports are pretty standard Now days on motherboards you need to ask your supplier more questions since this is your first build. I only use Nvidia video cards. I've had conflict problems with others before.I started building back in 1980& was tech in computer shop building for colleges in the area from 82-91used mostly AMD processors, Kingston memory , gigabyte MB's & Nvidea VB's