How to buy a computer

[Grandi]

Buying a computer means investigating multifarious features: RAM (casual-access honour), processor precipitateness, graphics adeptness, fatiguing disk margin and so on. Here's how to start. Be persuaded to scrutinize the allied Sites and allied eHows for more info.

Pick out a specialty accumulation, consumer electronics co-op give credence to, retail string, small ritual deduction string, nearby computer builder or correspondence-sequence/Internet vendor, based on your coldware and help desperate straitss.

[mike1921]

I always made a promise to myself that if I ever want a real computer (as in ones that could play high-end games from atleast 5 years ago.....or atleast use windows movie maker) I'd buy it off of ebay and have some friends who know more about computers than I ever could tell me what the computer is capable of before I actually buy it.
Also, I'd have the computer I'm using right now set up right next to the new one so I don't have to use my beast to search through google and possibly get a virus. Hell the other computer might not even have an internet connection.

[Grandi]

My point exactly

[Horyo]

I only buy pink computers.

Everything else is a second matter.

[Milkman]

I usually start off by thinking what i want to do with the computer. Mosty downloading and gaming. Then i think about how much money i want to spend on it. If that is clear i'm gonna browse the nerd sites to see wich part are the most cost efficient. I also look to my old pc to see wich parts i can recycle. Then i buy the stuff i want and assemble my own pc, install everything and i'm good to go

[Grandi]

Horyo gets it