Recommend an Office Desktop
 

Hi Guys,

I'm looking to purchase one (maybe 2) desktop computers for an office environment. I've no problem when it comes to picking my home PC but I'm not sure what to go for in the office or even if I'm missing a trick somewhere. Tasks wise it will be dealing largely with Microsoft Office packages and the internet. No intensive video editing, photoshop, gaming, etc.

I'm thinking an Intel i3 will be sufficient and have gravitated towards this bundle on overclockers. I've never bought stuff for 'business' before, am I missing something. Is this more/less than I need, etc.

Advice/Suggested systems appreciated :)

That'd be fine. Although I would select the 8gb RAM rather than the 4GB.

Agree, at £16, that's a given.

Splash out on it having an SSD plus a data HDD if you need it. This makes a massive difference and literally saved me hours each week using my office PC.

I've got a dual set up like that for my home PC, it's lightening quick but then it's a decent i7. I'm not sure how much of the speed is attributed to the SSD and how much is due to have a decent processor/RAM, etc.

Did you have a direct before/after comparison (i.e. same computer, new HD) or did you upgrade the entire comp? If so, how can you be sure that all of the extra speed is attributable to the SSD?

It's pretty much common knowledge that an SSD will give you a decent performance boost over a box using a HDD as its boot/OS device, regardless of the CPU/RAM. I have an o'clocked i5 which was using a HDD, upgraded to a samsung pro SSD, startup/opening apps is night and day compared to it using a HDD.

i would get a laptop, and use it with external keyboard amd monitor

Already got laptops. I'm a firm believer is using laptops only for portable computing and will always have a desktop for real work. I'm a magnitude of 3-5x faster at almost any task on my desktop and my laptop has similar computing power.