In message , Lemon
writes:
On 11/04/2013 7:02 PM, mick wrote:
I have a friend who is asking me to help him choose a new desktop
computer. He has an very old machine running win xp, he does not do
much other than email, internet, a bit of video editing and photograph
editing. He is also not that computer literate, I have to walk him
through most basic things much of the time.

Why does he want a new computer?

He has a wad of money burning a hole in his pocket :-)
Technology moves on, software gets better and needs more resources. We
now have USB3, blue ray and solid state drives to consider not to
mention wide screen monitors with HD.
Bit like having an old car, it will still go from A to B but a new
model will do it in style, probably safer and more efficiently.

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mick