Upgrade or new PC ?
 

I hope this is not a stupid question

I have a Medion PC 40 GB hard drive, 256 MB RAM 1.8 GHz processor.
Dual boot Windows and Linux

Now I need more hard drive (for photos etc) and more RAM and I have two options :-

1) Upgrade RAM £50 and buy an external hard drive
http://www.dabs4work.com/ProductView...1026&InMerch=1
£120 = total £170

2) Buy a new PC - £400

What is best ? I am worried that the external hard drive would be slow - can I use it as part of my home for Linux ? Or should I just put all my documents, photos there to free up space ?

Part of the problem is that on 20GB Ubuntu partition a) photos take lots of space but also I need space for applications etc.

What do people think ??

BTW the max RAM I can have is 1024MB

If you have room in your case I would buy a second internal hard drive. A second internal drive on an independent cable would speed up your computer significantly.

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Steve Stites

Depends on what sort of deals you can find. There is gobs of cheap, MS tax free hardware available here. Earlier this year I did an everything but the case upgrade for less than $200. That included $12 for a gig of RAM and $45 for a Seagate 80 gig HDD. No serious game machine, but great for surfing the net.

But I can only upgrade to 1Gb ram. Would that be a problem ? In that a couple of years I would need more RAM.