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Wanted! Your opinions on upgrading computers!!

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Barefoot

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Hi all,

I'm in college, and my communications professor assigned a persuasion speech today about any topic. Not a big deal....except that it is due tomorrow for me, because I was the lucky winner to go first. My topic is going to be upgrading PCs, since it's the only thing I can hope to get a speech ready for in this amount of time. So that I have some "research" to back up or discount my positions, I'd like to see what y'all have to say.

If you're interested in helping me with your 2 cents (or 3, if you're generous 🙂), here's some general guidelines:

1. Keep to the topic - computer upgrades: yes or no, to what extent, and what to upgrade to.

2. At the top of your reply, tell me whether you mind being used as a direct quote (your username will be used to identify you), or if you would prefer to be a generic reference ("Most people think...&quot😉.

3. Don't PM me, because those are a bear for me to try and keep track of. Please post here, or e-mail me.

4. If you don't want to post, please at least bump this to the top - I could use all the help I can get!

Thank you all very much in advance for your help and advice - I REALLY appreciate it!!

Barefoot

Added, as per gzollinger's advice: If you don't want to spend 20 minutes writing a dissertation on the concept of upgrading a system, just give me a short bit about a certain aspect of it, such as upgrading memory, or what you would upgrade first if you had an older system on your hands. I'll take anything y'all want to give me.
 
The main thing I would consider is the user. If it is mom, and all she wants to do is check her email, and play solitare, then the decision is going to be different then for myself. I would say that if someone is using a 200+ MHz processor with 128 Megs of RAM and all they want is a modem connection to the internet, and a lightning fast game of solitare, then I would argue no upgrade.... Man there are so many varibles my head is spinning. You know you may want to change your topic to something a little easier to add scope to. Maybe you should argue the point of wether or not you should build your system from parts or if you should buy prebuilt. That would be a little easier to argue in general. If you want to stick with the first debate, then I would recommend defining a very specific situation first. Define the situation and then make your argument for that specific situation. Otherwise my first post is going to be as specific as you can get to the question.
 
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Most people out grow the processing power in their computer system in the first 6 months of use. With the constant upgrade in technologies, and the ever changing requirements of todays software, it becomes evident that your going too need more. Now if your the average person your not going to go spend 2500 twice a year. So upgradin the system you have becomes a very attractive offer. But then you say too yourself, is that something I'm capabel of? Yes you are. Their is an abundance of information to be had on the subject. Your can start with a simple memory upgrade. Or swap the whole motherboard and cpu. It all depends on the amount of time you have for research. Now most users are going too stay away from the latter but anyone can add more memory or a video card. The performace gained by adding such components can seem like you replaced the whole system when you spent less than 100 dollars. Usually adding a card to an oem system is nothing more than disableing the current onboard hardware in windows system properties. Then pluging in the new card. Powerup and follow the on screen instuctions. Some components may have a speacial instruction or two, and those are never too complicated.

hope i helped a bit the rest is on your head
Rememer speak slow with lots of eyecontact hand movements jestures soforth insert short pauses after a point is made stretchs the speech and give time to digest info
 
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