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Multiple purchasing options are available to you

Please call Island Computers to discuss your options for purchasing a new notebook or desktop. Notebooks come in various shapes and sizes, as do desktops. All-in-one desktops have become more common and their build quality is excellent, as is their price - most of the time.

Custom built desktops are also available upon request, especially for gaming, professional photography and graphic design.

Some advice about future proofing

Computers have worse depreciation than cars. It's a heated race to be the best and products become superseded in less than a year so knowing what to choose is very important.

Purchasing Tips:

• Shop around. Ask my advise. Don't get the first one you see or get recommended by the shop assistant.
• Don't buy a budget or cheap machine. Get a mid to high end machine.
• Don't choose a machine with a low end CPU. Get a mid-high end one.
  AMD Ryzen processors are highly recommended.
• 8GB of RAM for a notebook, not 4GB.
• 16GB of RAM for a desktop, not 8GB.
• 1 Terabyte drive (1TB) is standard for a notebook.  A 500 Gigabyte drive (500GB) is unacceptable.
• Get a 250-500GB SSD, not a 120GB one. Or you will run out of room FAST!
• Get two to three disks, 1x SSD and 1x HDD in a desktop, if possible. You'll thank me - see below re: SSD.
  Or 1x 250GB-500GB NVME, 1x 1TB SSD (games) and an external hard drive for storage.
  
• Get the latest generation of video cards, not the last one - if you can afford it.
  

Solid State Drives (SSD) are very affordable now so I highly recommend using one for your Windows drive and having a second Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for your personal data. The Windows boot times for an SSD are amazing and can be as little as 5 seconds! They are truly awesome!! NVME SSDs are even faster than a SATA SSD and are the No.1 recommendation for your OS install drive.