Computer recommendation

[bigvince]

Looking for a desktop or all in one recommendation for running media at our hall. Our old laptop is on its last leg.

[dove]

I've used the Dell XPS 2710 all-in-one 27" for years with no problems..

[Dages]

We use an old laptop for that... as far as it can handle HD video and streaming, you should be ok.

[bigvince]

Dages, thanks, but we want something we can use for at least a few years, so an older laptop might "work", we'd probably be looking at upgrading again in the near future.

[On the huh]

So practically any laptop or desktop on the market at the moment will work and be good enough for many years to come.  

If I was going to look for new one for my kingdom hall, I might look at a all-in-one with touchscreen.  Not sure I would go for 27", sounds too big to me.  Depends on your sound desk i guess.  A SSD will mean faster start-up, that's a plus.  Our current laptop is a HP Pavilion, with Intel Core i5, 4GB and with intel 5100 graphics.  That is about 3 years old, so newer ones will be out now.  You don't need anything fancy in the graphics department of things, its not a gaming machine.  (or are you streaming/recording video?).

[bigvince]

48 minutes ago, Jonathan77 said:

So practically any laptop or desktop on the market at the moment will work and be good enough for many years to come.  

If I was going to look for new one for my kingdom hall, I might look at a all-in-one with touchscreen.  Not sure I would go for 27", sounds too big to me.  Depends on your sound desk i guess.  A SSD will mean faster start-up, that's a plus.  Our current laptop is a HP Pavilion, with Intel Core i5, 4GB and with intel 5100 graphics.  That is about 3 years old, so newer ones will be out now.  You don't need anything fancy in the graphics department of things, its not a gaming machine.  (or are you streaming/recording video?).

That would probably work, but we really would prefer a desktop. I'm looking at bestbuy.

[njwinans]

This is what I would go with if you have the room for it.  That is off bestbuy's website too.

 

Dell desktop.

 

Monitor.

 

It is adequate.