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Being a student is not easy since you must learn new things in record time! New math formulas, new words and vocabulary and many historical dates you must put inside your head. To add something more you must do some complicated research from time to time when the teacher asks for it.

A computer for you is absolutely indispensable for the tasks. The problem is what computer should you buy? Very easy. Since you are a student you know you need a computer for some basic works such as writing on Microsoft Word, make some presentations using Microsoft Power Point, making some databases using Microsoft Access, making some websites using Microsoft Publisher and of course sending E-mails using Microsoft Outlook.

For such things a cheap computer will do fine. Get an Intel Celeron with 1 GB of RAM. The hard disk can be of 80 GB you don't need one bigger. Windows XP will do fine specially in old computers. Don't worry about security. To make it secure, put AVG Free Edition on it, with Zone Alarm Firewall and Spy Sweeper. They are all free except the last one. You have only 30 days for free. After that I recommend you to buy it or installing Spy Bot Search and Destroy. However the last one is not so good. The graphic card can be integrated in the motherboard. You want the computer to work, not to play. Sound card integrated too.

This computer configuration is more than enough for you to work with the above programs. Now if you want a computer for professional projects such as professional video edition, professional photo edition with Photoshop and heavy Video encoding and Music encoding, you are going to need a much more powerful machine. Look at this one: Intel Core 2 QUAD with four processor running at 2.6 GHZ each!

There is very little these bulls can't do! 4 GB of RAM with Windows Vista is recommended too. A hard disk of 500 GB is also the right storage option for you too. Don't forget that you are going to spend even more money to buy all the programs such as photoshop and adobe premier pro.

As a student both machines will do fine for you if you use them just for the tasks I explained above.

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