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I'm interested in buying a refurbed Dell PC.  Which one is recommended?   It needs to have Word & Excel.   I'd like to store home movies on an external hard drive and then have the ability to burn to DVD.  Would like the ability to do modest video editing.   What do you think?

ieee488 · Answer

@wfohusky wrote:

I'm interested in buying a refurbed Dell PC. Which one is recommended?

It needs to have Word & Excel.

I'd like to store home movies on an external hard drive and then have the ability to burn to DVD. Would like the ability to do modest video editing.

What do you think?

I have a lowly B110 with 512MB of RAM.
The only video editing I do is trim MPEG files to get rid of commercials.
I burn to DVD-R. This computer works fine for my needs.

I'm not sure how many of the refurbished PCs come with Word and Excel.
All new PCs come with USB2 ports to allow you to connect an external hard drive
for fast file access.
You just need to make the PC has a DVD writer.

ctalia4000 · Answer

You may want to look at a regular Inspiron 530 or an XPS 410. Some of the systems may come with MS Works, which includes a copy of word 2002. You have to buy Excel. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/help?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh&~ck=anavml   A computer running Vista Home premium Windows, needs 2GB of RAM, and a dedicated video card. http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/08/26/shared-vs-dedicated-video-card-memory/

FullCry · Answer

Dittos to ctalia4000.  I have an XPS410 from the Outlet, and it is nothing short of awesome.

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