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This may/may not help but I just bought a new PC and so far I'm very impressed with and will give a little review on. Bought a Dell XPS 8700 with Windows 8.1. I'm still skeptical about 8.1 but I have found ways to dumb down the annoying "tiles" desktop interface so it is more like Windows 7 with the start menu and normal desktop. Had to trick it to install my old laser printer that doesn't have a Win7/8 driver but there was one close enough in the same model series I got it to install, takes a little longer than I like for it to queue up and print but I don't print often so I can live with it instead of buying a new printer.
Hardware specs:
4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4790 Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.0 GHz)
8 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz
1TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive 6.0 Gb/s
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 1GB DDR3
16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW)
Integrated 7.1 with WAVE MAXXAudio 4 Sound Card
It also has built in wireless and Bluetooth 4.0 (I disabled WiFi, I prefer my desktop PC to run off a wired connection for better stability and speeds) It has built in Media Card Readers for: 19-in-1 Card Reader (CF Type I, CF Type II, Micro drive, mini SD, MMC, MMC mobile, MMC plus, MS, MS Pro, MS Pro Duo, MS Duo, MS Pro-HG, RS-MMC, SD, SDHC Class 2, SDHC Class 4, SDHC Class 6, SM, xD)
Been very stable, lightning quick at boot up and launching apps. I use some Adobe products to maintain our farm website and they run very smooth. Boot up time from power on to logon screen I bet no more than 30 seconds if not less. Still have some tinkering around to do to get everything configured the way I like it but so far it's been a pretty nice machine. I have been buying Dells since 2002 and have had pretty good luck with the hardware being reliable and long lasting.
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Computer Recommendation for the use of Apex and SMS Software
