The Most Important Single Aspect On A PC For You Is What?

[Lee]

When it comes to buying new computers, what do you consider the single most important aspect of a new system to be, obviously its good to get a 'whole package' but what is the first thing you actually look for when buying a new machine?

Drive Space? RAM? Processor? Brand Name? Price?

Which aspect of a PC is your primary focus when looking for a new one?

Regards,

Lee

[Evil Ryan]

I really would hope mine has a scroller. God would life suck without one of those.

[SirGuy]

RAM, CPU speed and monitor quality are priority for me.

Drive space is secondary since I usually run several Tb external drives.

Oh, and the more USB ports the merrier.

[DEVELISH]

Stability, Reliability, Service Dedication, Availability to physically have somebody on hand when problems should arise (someone to kick around).

RAM, CPU-Speed, Drive Speed, DVD/Blueray, number of USB ports, Firewire or whatever is available in sufficiant amounts and more than we all need ;-)


Monitor quality is a VERY GOOD point - thats what we stare at every day.

Oh, the question was about PC's... uhm.. I'm a Mac
I am a Mac cuz I realized that all I did was editing text files, cropping images and using FTP and thus is the OS / Hardware platform did not matter anymore to me. Yet I wanted a stable OS which goes out of my way while I work.

No for real... if you look at laptops and a monitor you might as well look for a macbook + 24" Cinema Display + Parallels Virtual Machine and a Windows XP / 7 Licence = $1200 + 900 + 80 + Windows Licence of your old PC = $2180

compare $2180 to your laptop and an additional display which blows away your mind (other displays are ok but go to a local apple store and have alook at those 24" Cinemy Displays - you'll drool)

[HunkyLuke]

I have only been buying laptops for the last 10 or so years, so my priorities are getting the perfect balance of lightweight and a big screen.

[jIgG]

RAM definitely.
CPU and Drive space being second

I build my own PCs the way I want them so brand isn't very important but for some of the parts.

[PUMPaul]

Processing power is most important. Derived from RAM, CPU, OS, and mother board. It's the over all picture of how well a computer can render video in the background while I run photoshop and dreamweaver at the same time. Any computer I look at when time to upgrade will have to be a 64 bit machine for sure with a big power supply to run multiple USBs, the rest is all open to playing with for the optimimum power.