Desktop computer recommendations

[Henros]

Morning All,
What desktops are people using?
Need to upgrade from laptop, mainly for general farm office work so massive memory not required but would like something fast.

 

[Timbo]

Morning All,
What desktops are people using?
Need to upgrade from laptop, mainly for general farm office work so massive memory not required but would like something fast.

Mid range i5, 8gb min of ram, ssd boot drive and a 1gb second storage drive, two monitors as big as your desk will support.

 

[Boysground]

New desktop arriving today went for AMD Ryzen 5 processor. 500 gb pci ssd, 16gb ram, lower spec graphics card purely to make it easy to fit my 2 27 inch monitors. Don’t need massive storage as most is cloud stored.
Came from pc specialist, you can spec whatever you want.

bg

 

[jon.newbould]

Use a good laptop with docking port, big screen(s), wireless keyboard and mouse and have the best of both worlds.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Out of laziness I bought the second cheapest Dell online, haven’t a clue what the specs are. It’s main job is accounts using Xero and a bit of spreadsheet work. The screen is nice and big and already had another screen that will work with it if wanted.
Delivered quickly and efficiently and works okay.

 

[Lincs Lass]

If you know a computer geek ,get one built to your own spec and then you wont get all the unwanted gumph that of the shelf systems come with .

 

[Chris F]

As above for spec, but go big on the screen! 48 curved widescreen below:

 

[Boysground]

As above for spec, but go big on the screen! 48 curved widescreen below:

Looking good

bg

 

[Cowabunga]

My daughter has a curved screen at work but think she said that she would prefer having two 21" screens side by side, which would also be the cheaper option.

For farm accounting work, the cheapest desktop with a reasonable processor would do the job. They are all fast at office work these days. No need for a particularly high speed, speakers or a high definition screen.
Unless it was a busy office that did a bit more than hinted at.

Plenty suitable at under £300+VAT and add another £100 for a monitor.
908038-dell-optiplex-3070-core-i3-9th-gen-4gb-ram-128gb-ssd-win10-wjn6j

 

[Lincs Lass]

Two screens work very well ,,you can be on here and search for something else at the same time

 

[Steevo]

New desktop arriving today went for AMD Ryzen 5 processor. 500 gb pci ssd, 16gb ram, lower spec graphics card purely to make it easy to fit my 2 27 inch monitors. Don’t need massive storage as most is cloud stored.
Came from pc specialist, you can spec whatever you want.

bg

Exactly what I have recently ordered from PC Specialist. Arrived last week and really pleased with it.

It's like night and day compared to my previous machine - faster, quieter, even the internet runs faster!!

Cost was £750+VAT.


Has totally put me off buying from PCWorld or such ever again. It's amazing how an off the shelf packaged machine can be bundled with poorer components that look good but actually represent very poor value for money.

 

[Chris F]

Exactly what I have recently ordered from PC Specialist. Arrived last week and really pleased with it.

It's like night and day compared to my previous machine - faster, quieter, even the internet runs faster!!

Cost was £750+VAT.


Has totally put me off buying from PCWorld or such ever again. It's amazing how an off the shelf packaged machine can be bundled with poorer components that look good but actually represent very poor value for money.

£900 should buy you a rocket of the desktop.

and @Cowabunga we all know two 48 inch widescreens is the way to go!

 

[Boysground]

Exactly what I have recently ordered from PC Specialist. Arrived last week and really pleased with it.

It's like night and day compared to my previous machine - faster, quieter, even the internet runs faster!!

Cost was £750+VAT.


Has totally put me off buying from PCWorld or such ever again. It's amazing how an off the shelf packaged machine can be bundled with poorer components that look good but actually represent very poor value for money.

Been unboxing tonight. Just have to treble check everything is backed up on the old machine and I have all the correct passwords before I move everything in my office.

Old machine is a 9 year old i5 I bought from pc specialist it has been faultless in its time. I’m going to put a Wi-fi card and maybe ssd in it and use it to run my Zwift (bike and turbo trainer)

Bg

 

[rhsl]

Just bought a new desktop and screen from Novatech as the one Farmplan where quoting seemed expensive.
With a spec higher than Farmplan it was £400 cheaper, arrived a week later as had to be built , but so far its great, so much faster.

 

[Timbo]

Also going through an upgrade of one of the office PC's at the moment, being hampered by a vast amount of email that's stored on it, and inability to easily convert Live Mail to Outlook....

 

[Boysground]

I had live mail issues a years ago. If I remember right I couldn’t move the email to outlook. Think I have a backup file somewhere

bg

 

[Steevo]

Also going through an upgrade of one of the office PC's at the moment, being hampered by a vast amount of email that's stored on it, and inability to easily convert Live Mail to Outlook....

IMAP email is much easier. All email stored on server not the machine.
When you swap machine it all downloads automatically.

 

[Timbo]

IMAP email is much easier. All email stored on server not the machine.
When you swap machine it all downloads automatically.

Only to aware of this. You would have thought outlook would have an 'import & sync ' feature from wlm but no..

 

[Steevo]

Only to aware of this. You would have thought outlook would have an 'import & sync ' feature from wlm but no..

Alternative suggestion for you - might be worth trying eM Client. I've just given it a free trial on the new desktop I purchased. Apparnetly it will import all info automatically from your existing email client. It's totall free for up to 2 email accounts too I think.

Similar interface to WLM too.

https://www.emclient.com/blog/trans...r-current-email-client-to-em-client-easily-85

 

[Treemover]

New desktop arriving today went for AMD Ryzen 5 processor. 500 gb pci ssd, 16gb ram, lower spec graphics card purely to make it easy to fit my 2 27 inch monitors. Don’t need massive storage as most is cloud stored.
Came from pc specialist, you can spec whatever you want.

bg

How much do you mind me asking?