Need advice on new desktop

[jtuck004]

10. No, not on the one you described. Win 7 would use it and your processor would likely work less.

Just an aside - I buy Core2Duo Lenovo laptops from ebay, $2-300, bring ram up to 8 gb, sometimes add a solid state drive and put a 500 gb in the second bay (I use mostly flash drives now, don't really write too many DVD's - and I can plug the old one in externally if I need it), and I run Linux Mint 15 with the XFCE desktop

BUT

I also run a piece of software called VirtualBox, and that lets me run Windows 7, or 8, or another Linux or two ALL on the same box at the same time.

It exists for Windows as well - so if you wanted to try Linux, it's relatively easily done. I prefer Linux as the main system, with Windows as I need it, but there is a little learning curve. (But Linux is available for a download, not $100 or $200, or $300 like Windows). VirtualBox is opensource, lets one run eval versions, so I can try a lot of different things. VirtualBox essentially creates another computer in a "box" on your desktop, with it's own network card, drive, etc, all in software.Can download it at virtualbox.org.

If you try it, be sure and back everything up first.

This machine happens to be an I5 with 8 gb, T520 I put $400 into (with the SSD) and I get so much open on it that I forget I had stuff there.

Anyway, Win 7 would be very happy to get another 4 GB.