My mom is ready to pull the trigger on a new desktop computer for her business. A few machines have already been recommended to her by a computer support guy that she has worked with for many years. I wish I could offer her more help, but I am pretty clueless with respect to any of the new computers being offered these days beside Apple and she isn't interesting in getting an Apple for her business. I think she would like to keep the price in line with what has been recommended, so the $500 to $1000 range. Typically, she uses such a new machine for about six to seven years. My two primary concerns are, first and foremost, reliability and then good to great value for her dollar (i.e, price to performance ratio).
Here are the three that have been recommended to her:
fast i3
Gateway DX4831-01U PT.GAJ02.037 Desktop PC - Intel Core i3-530 2.93GHz, 6GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, DVDRW, Media Reader, 300 Watt PSU, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit at TigerDirect.com
faster I5
Gateway DX4840-07 PT.GAU02.020 Desktop PC - Intel Core i5 650 3.2GHz, 6GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, DVDRW, 300 Watt PSU, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit at TigerDirect.com
insanely fast i7
Gateway FX Series FX6840-23 PT.GAT02.019 Desktop PC - Intel Core i7-860 2.8GHz, 8GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, DVDRW, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit at TigerDirect.com
I would greatly appreciate some helpful input...