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Originally Posted by Robster
When I started this thread I didn't expect it to be so popular, obviously I've hit a nerve
I think its difficult for an everyday home user to find what I would call a good value PC, for the main reason that the amount of RAM almost never matches the potential of the CPU or the rest of the system when you go to PC World or any other major retailer.
The result of this is that it will be a shorter period before newer software makes the system seem slow, and if you don't know much about computers you'll think you need a whole new PC, making it overall bad value.
I've been fairly certain for some time that this is intentional and a cynical ploy by the major retailers to reduce the length of time before you are back in the shop buying a new PC.
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i can agree with you on this, every time i've done a pc world health check on a customers machine that has been bought there there's a section at the end with recomendations that we think will improve their system,
memory is the most common upgrade,
with 256mb in most machines i've seen it's just not enough most of todays programs and games
next is probably graphics most machines have crappy onboard and customers wonder why it won't play hl2 or bf2 even though their machine has a 3ghz cpu and enough hdd space and don't even know if their machine will take a agp or pci-e card upgrade, most don't only because their not told, only in the very latest machines iv'e seen the slots for them
i think it is a plot to get customers to keep coming back for help and this is why they get anoyed with places like pcw and currys (digital)