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Published on Saturday, September 06, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
If you want a better desktop computer than the guy next door, now is the time to start looking and buying.
In previous months, PCs from the major makers were offering 2 to 3 gigabytes of RAM with dual-core Intel and AMD processors. You need that kind of power to make the Windows Vista operating system run well.
But in the past few weeks, I've seen a major uptick in desktop PC specifications - and prices.
Friday's Fry's Electronics ad features an HP Pavilion Media Center M9350 PC with an AMD Phenom X4 9850 quad-core processor, a whopping 6 GB of RAM, 750 GB hard drive, DVD/CD burner, NVIDIA graphics card with its own 512 megabytes of memory, built-in wireless networking and an analog-and-digital TV tuner with remote control.
The TV tuner and remote add the job of "media center" to this desktop PC. You can watch live TV, and record and share it
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