Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Computer Learning -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (23828)	12/13/2001 6:55:02 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

Should I get Windows XP Home Edition or Professional Edition? Personally, I haven't encountered much of anything I wish I had Professional for. Home's good. Should I get extra RAM? It's so cheap these days, you should go for it. It's a good idea to have at least 256 meg, but I'm not sure you'd really see a lot of gain past that. Maybe with XP, though. What brands of PC should I avoid (the existing desktop is a P3 933 MhZ H-P Pavilion)? I really like the PowerSpec and dislike Gateway, Dell, Compaq, etc. It's because the PowerSpec doesn't use a proprietary layout or parts. You can later replace or upgrade anything in the machine for a reasonable cost, right on down to the motherboard. Is it possible to network the two PC's together if I have one running ME and the other running XP? I've never used ME, so don't know anything about it, but I'm 99% sure you can. Even 95 had network stuff built right in. I'm networking between XP and 2K right now. XP is far easier to set up for networking, too.