I just bought a 500gb Dell running Windows 7 to replace my old 50gb Windows XP.
My computer guys said, “Don’t get 8, get 7!” Windows 8, so it is said, was designed to function on touch screen tablets, not cnventional PCs. There is even an app to make Windows 8 mimic the regular desktop start menu and icons on Windows 7, because 8 on a PC is so un-user-friendly.
But MS won’t let retailers sell any more Windows 7 products, they now have to stock and sell WIndows 8, like it or not. So if you are buying at a bigbox store off the shelf, you are pretty much stuck with 8.
But Dell will still sell new Windows 7 machines, at least for a while, and that’s what I just purchased and had shipped to my house. Even got a great price, since it’s “only” 500gb, and “last years’s model.” But the Office that is installed is the 2013 version. Go figure. Just set it up today.
The MS Office that you have is 60 day trial version that comes with advertisements and 500gb is more than enough for most people. The only way to fill up 500gb is with lots of DVDs ripped onto the hard drive at 4.3gb per movie. Though Blue Ray movies take up 23gb which I never put on my hard drive. Someone who makes lots of home movies can fill up 500gb.
Word on Office 2000 works good enuff on 64bit (such as Windows 7) systems and can be found on torrent sites
Visually Windows 7 is the way to go...over Windows 8
I prefer Win 7. 8 sucks. They put 8 on the servers. Total suck.
You want some rotating disk for large scale storage. You also want SSD so the operating system runs damn fast. Make sure the SSD is fully error checked before you use it. Fast multi-core machines are often wasted waiting on show disk resources. A good SSD solves that problem.
Well, Matt, sounds like a good little system. You’re welcome to come on down south and have a few beers while I fix it up for ya. $:-)