Thanks God for your heart to help, and the advice is appreciated.
Yes, the Intel vs AMD ? is a Chevy v. Ford or Linux v. Windows kinda question, but i was interested in what you would say, as many geeks think the latter gives more bang for the buck.
You are right about everyone having different needs. As i already have an optical drive and HDs and more ram is cheaper elsewhere, the main thing is cpu speed and a good mobo, and i like these (good mobo it seems, and CPU, but upgrade PSU, and add ram latter): http://www.portatech.com/catalog/viewitem.asp?ID=25352&O=70239%2C65753%2C26503%2C26382%2C26413&fbm=1&r=p Yet the ALLPCZONE does has the best warranty.
But this is more research for the future, for as long as this rig runs i doubt if i will spend the Lord’s money on a new one. Maybe the prices will remain the same or drop. I will try to let you know if i get an upgrade.
And i think both last long, as i have never has a CPU fail. As one man (you) said, “A good thing is well made, on time, at a fair price, and will last as long as possible.”
On the full size desktop, i know these are rare, but i do like the extra space and the PCs i have all have the sides off and i move HDs in and out. Large HDs also (recently bought a re-certified 750gb Seagate for about 40 at NewEgg) as i sometimes make Christian videos. But i work mainly in one place and so I don’t find laptops that viable. I see tablets as having a lot of growth in the future, until judgment comes.
Speed is what i like, and besides hardware I like programs like the free AutoHotKey one, which i use to make many shortcut keys, like Windows key (#) and C launching Control Panel, or #U Add and remove programs comes us, etc. I also use it to reprogram the caps lock key (CapsLock::^c) so that it copies selected text and Esc (Esc::^v) pastes it (useful in building a database in research). NumLock replaces Esc. And F10 starts a PsTools script (F10::Run C:\Program Files\PsTools\psshutdown.exe -d -f -t 21) which places the PC on standby in 21 secs (#F10 will abort it). I normally rarely shut mine down this PC, but have it configured to go on standby after about 20 minutes of non activity, and when done i just hit F10. Of course i do not remember all of the shortcuts but many are easy.
I also speculate that in the future flash memory or something will replace the platter type HD, which seems rather archaic, if overall reliable. PCs will cold boot in seconds.
I think that one area in which there is much room for improvement is speech to text software. I have an old version of Dragon (i do not like what the name seems to represent) as my stiff fingers makes typing slow and “typofied,” and know not how improved the newer version is, or how good the Windows version in W/7 is, but it should be just as easy to make your own voice commands to do what shortcut keys do as it is to make them. I see where you can even use sound “keyfiles’ as passwords.
Anyway, its time to get to work on the work, but thanks for your input.