My computer died this weekend and I have to get a new one. I
would appreciate any advice on hardware, particlularly on
where to buy. I am not concerned that it be a name brand.
My major use of the computer is either (1) writing legal
papers or correspondence in xywrite where my format ie margins
and fonts, never vary, conveerting them into wordperfect 5.1
for printing in either times roman or universal condensed on
two hp5 printers (2) research and downloading material from
lexis or westlaw in pure txt which I always print out in the
same format, (3) converting documents that I have written into
pdf format for electronic filing with courts,(4) sending and
receiving email and (5) surfing the internet through a dsl
line. Since I do not toggle back and forth much between
xywrite and windows applications and print in word perfect I
have not had any major problems running xywrite in windows xp
professional in maximum or full screen. I have an external
160 gig hard drive so I never have a problem being backed up.
The computer that just died was a no name pc with a 2.2
gigahrz amd processor, 1 gig of ram, a 50 gig hardrive that
was less than 50% used, a cd burner and a dvd burner which I
very very rarely used, a dsl modem with a wireless router and
a dial up modem. I expect to buy something like that again
but with two gigs of ram since it seemed to meet my needs and
will continue to use fat32. Any suggestions on whther I
should stay with Xp or go back to windows 2000 or dual boot
using xp and another operating system.