Thread: I got an early Xmas gift today, I have questions for the computer gurus here
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Old 11-08-2009, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by lovcom View Post
1. The warranties are mostly a huge rip-off....don't do it....rip off city.

2. Don't get the too expensive MicroSoft Office suite....get the free and beter OpenOffice product...it is a lot better and it is free! Just go to OpenOffice.org and download it....it is a great product!! Also it opens up existing MS-Office documents too....

3. Max out the memory (ram) on your machine...a cheap way to turbo charge it's performence when running more then a few concurrent apps.
Agreed 100%. (I'm no guru but my spouse is).
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