hi all! Any Recommendations for the poor PC who's going to get me and a A+ course..

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Hi all and I'd first like to say a big thanks to all the threads I've read today that have made me realise I probably don't have to spend thousands of pounds to get somewhere in terms of training schools or whatever, have been sitting here for a few days (not literally!!) wondering what to do, I want to specialise in networking and although my website design degree is great its not going to get me where I want to go.

Everyone seems to point towards to the CompTIA A+ course to start with and I'm a bookworm so a few books will suit me fine, I am gonna get a pc on the cheap but I'm way out of the game in terms of what kind of spec I need and/or software to run on it for the course, any suggestions on what I need?? I presume Windows XP is the os, I'm sure I have a hooky CD version lying around.........

 

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Hi and welcome to CF!

You don't need anything exotic for this. You'll be pulling it apart, and re-installing quite a few times, so the latest and greatest isn't required.

You might find a reasonable machine second-hand in the local paper, or at a computer fair.

Harry.

 

Thankyou for the fast reply, Any specifications??

I'm sorry but I'm well off the pace, what would be your minimum?

 

Anything over 1GHz with 256MB memory will run XP and the previous versions of Windows reasonably happily.

XP might be a little slow - but you aren't trying to use this machine say for mega spreadsheets, so it shouldn't matter!

Edit: You should be able to find such a machine for less than £50 fairly easily.

Harry.

 

Glad to know that the forum helped you! Welcome!

 

Cheers hbroomhall, thats been a great help, I'd imagine this won't be the last time there'll be a post on here with my name on it....

Taking apart a pc, it can't be that hard surely? Frankenstien springs to mind.........

 

As with most things, taking them apart is easy, putting them back together again, well that is the challenging part

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