Friday, September 23, 2011

Since Track It All is a company that relies heavily on websites such as Facebook and Twitter to promote, programs such as Microsoft Excel and Word to quantify and compute data, and photo-publishing programs such as Photoshop to show create advertisements and promotions,   it will need to invest in a powerful computer to run smoothly. 

There are many computers available in the market today, and most fill a specific niche. Picking a gaming laptop will provide me with components that the company would not need. (Like an improved sound card, graphics card, etc.) Through research, I have discovered that the company would need a desktop workstation. The specific desktop I found was the Dell Studio XPS 9100. Its specifications are as follow:

CPU- Intel Core i7-930 Processor with 8MB L2 Cache, clocked at 2.80GHz. This powerful CPU will provide me with adequate performance for anything from crunching data into Microsoft Excel to processing an advertisement through Photoshop.

OS-Windows 7 Professional. Though Mac OSX is a more refined and easier-to-use OS, Windows 7 provides many benefits for the business user. It is safer, providing file encryption, and automatic backups. It can easily connect to a wireless network and a printer. And finally it has more programs that are compatible with it.

RAM- 12GB Tri Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MGz- 3DIMMs. 6GB RAM will be sufficient for my workstation since I'll be running some memory-intensive applications such as Photoshop.

Video Card- Nvidia Geforce G405. This is the stock video card that comes with the desktop. The company does not need an advanced video card because the desktop will not be used for watching movies or playing games, hopefully.

Hard Drive- 1TB- 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s. This is the stock hard drive that comes with the desktop. 1TB is more than enough to store a few advertisements and documents.

In total, the price for the company's business computer is $1,149.99. 

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