New office PC

[DamageINC]

My sister needs a new Office PC, budget 500$. I don't want to go through the hassle of building and possible RMA's etc since she needs it for work.

I have a couple picked out and wanted to hear your guys (Joe's) thoughts on them. Feel free to post links to other PC's. Tower only is needed.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Lenovo+...25-5-88055-88056-25-2036-912-25-2036-2889-0-1

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+...rive/2634111.p?id=1218341067971&skuId=2634111

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Lenovo+...rive/2677297.p?id=1218343869103&skuId=2677297

 

[517Houston]

Looking at all 3, either lenovo should be ideal for her needs..I'd recommend the 1st one with the 8 gigs of ram

 

[Pugsport]

what works it going to be doing? just general word stuff and office doc or something more?

 

[DamageINC]

Yea, Microsoft office, spreadsheets , documents, accounting work. Also internet browsing, pictures, burning pics etc, so nothing very intensive. 8gb of ram is overkill and just in there for a selling point, but i liked the i3, although i think it's some sort of lower powered i3, but im not sure.

 

[Joe Momma]

Mk, here is what I recommend. Similar to that first pc you posted, but instead of 8gb of ram it has 4gb (which is more than enough for what she is doing) and the hard drive is upped to 1.5TB. Hard drive prices are through the roof so this is pretty much the price. Also the Intel core i3 is actually slightly more powerful than a Phenom II x4 955 even though it's a dual core. So it should get the job done.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220107

 

[DamageINC]

Thanks. Yea, i was pricing out a build also and noticed the HDD prices are insanely high. Pug showed me the WD factory in Thailand that got flooded.