Hi all - been to pc world today and seen a computer which is on offer. Advent T9610 + 20" LG widescreen tft monitor. £669.99
or just the tower for £499.00 I think the offer ends on Saturday. Usually £889.99
It had a dual twin core processor Q6600 2.4Ghz
Genuine Windows vista home premium. 3GB Ram 250gb hard drive dual layer DVD rewriter and nVidia Ge force 8400GS. We need this computer to be able to
run paintshop pro 8 without crashing for daughters A level photography. Anyone got any comments on this before I go and buy it? Many thanks Graham.
our old computer is 6 years old and dying!
Sounds like more computer than you need and also sounds quite expensive. Also I can't Imagine you would ever need or use a quad core cpu. If the
most intensive thing you want to run is Paintshop Pro then I would say buy the cheapest computer they do as any new computer will run Paintshop Pro 8
though no amount of money spent on a computer can guarantee it wont crash. I would also try to find a computer that has Windows XP rather than Vista
but that's personal preference due to having used vista and not liking it at all.
If you want a Vista PC I would go with something like this PC with
this monitor. Less than £440 delivered or if its for uni how about a laptop?
This one would do nicely for just over £450 delivered.
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Originally posted by Keith Weiland
Sounds like more computer than you need and also sounds quite expensive. Also I can't Imagine you would ever need or use a quad core cpu. If the most intensive thing you want to run is Paintshop Pro then I would say buy the cheapest computer they do as any new computer will run Paintshop Pro 8 though no amount of money spent on a computer can guarantee it wont crash. I would also try to find a computer that has Windows XP rather than Vista but that's personal preference due to having used vista and not liking it at all.
If you want a Vista PC I would go with something like this PC with this monitor. Less than £440 delivered or if its for uni how about a laptop? This one would do nicely for just over £450 delivered.
Thanks for your info we have been told that you need one GB of ram just to run vista without any other programmes as you can probably tell we don't know much about computers. Our computer has been fine until she needed to run paintshop pro since then it has kept crashing. We were told by school that a large ram was needed to build up layers on paintshop pro 8 as their computers are always crashing and they have kept having to add more ram.
I run an Asus, it a year old and cost me £800 the one there will more than do what you want and they have a 2 year collect and return warranty
The one Aldi is selling at the moment has a much higher spec with 500gb HDD and a Blu-ray HD drive.
Check it out!!
Hi Mate,
From the Corel web site:
Paint shop Pro system requirements
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
System Requirements
* Microsoft® Windows Vista™ or Windows® XP, with latest service packs installed
* 512 MB RAM (768 MB recommended)
* 768 MB RAM required if using Windows Vista
* 1 GHz processor (2 GHz recommended)
* 500 MB hard disk space
* 24-bit color display, 1024x768 resolution
* Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c or higher (included in Windows Vista and XP)
Additional Requirements for selected features
* Microsoft® Outlook®, Outlook Express, WordPerfect® MAIL™ or other MAPI-compliant email software (to email from the product)
* Apple® QuickTime® 7 or higher (to play .mov movie files)
I wouldn't buy a PC from PC World myself...
You could get a pretty good Dell or something for that sort of money or have a chat with graememk on here -
link to his web site
Or give me a call sometime 
Cheers
Mark
The most basic Dell will probably do the job - PSP is not exactly demanding and 1 Gb is pretty average nowadays (2Gb is better for Vista). You could spent half of your quoted price and buy some extra software instead.
Don't be a Meanie! buy her a Macbook and a dodgy copy of Photoshop. It will be so much more useful as it comes with iPhoto to organise her shots
and lots of other good stuff. It should last her through college and you can run nasty PC programes with Parallels if you really need to. The only add
on I would suggest is a two button and scroll wheel mouse or even the Mac mightymouse though it is a bit expensive!
Caber
PS if you are feeling extremely mean get a Mac mini and keep existing peripherals. We have two of these in the office used with Photoshop
professionally to do renderings they are more than capable though run Parallels a lot slower.
Caber
Build yourself one 
you'll get the spec you want and it will work out cheaper.
David
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Originally posted by flak monkey
Build yourself one
David
Basic requirement for photo retouching are memory and a decent monitor after that comes hard disk and graphics card -- ie the mainboard processor
isn't that important.
If you are going to run Vista then plan for 2 to 4 gb memory.
If it were me I would go for one of these
http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=4458&CategoryID=142&SubCategoryID=183
And up the memory to 4 gb and add a decent monitor.
For image retouching I use a combination of Picassa for the simple jobs and "The Gimp" for the more complex stuff both are 100% free
software.
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Originally posted by flak monkey
Build yourself one
David