Ultimate Upgrade Guide - Your thoughts?

[SysOpt]

What does everyone think of this?

http://www.sysopt.com/articles/upgradeguide/index.html

Well written? Informative? Interesting? Helpful? Aimed at the right audience, or too novice? Heidi tried to cover all the bases without going into so much detail as to fill a textbook, so we want to know if in doing so, she "dumbed it down" too much..

Thanks,
Scott

[CMonster]

It had a nice flow and was well written as an upgrade guide for an average computer user; however, if it was actually intended for an "information systems manager or a serious computer user," I think it was a bit oversimplified and perhaps drawn out. I would like to have seen the main point impact at the beginning of each segment so I could decide if I wanted to peruse the details that followed.

[MrEd]

Very informative, and well written.
It's a hard call to say it's good or bad. It has a lot of information, maybe too much for the average user, yet it is information that one would need to know. Personally, I liked it, but I don't know if "Joe Computer Builder" would be bored reading it or not.

-MrEd
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[Roy]

Not bad, inevitably dated.

Why do you ask?

[IRED]

The question is who are you writing this for?Everone bouncing around these boards already know what the dream machine is.

If you are talking to a system manager,they can only get what the boss okays,which is never the top of the line unless you work for a company whose bottom line depends on top of the line equipment.

After reading the whole article I would say it's well written.

But I still havent figured out who it's written to.

[Bleeding Edge]

I think you should be proud of your efforts. Certain to be more helpful to most than not. It's fine. Perfect for publication in pc magazines such as Windows Magazine.

-nice job guys.

[U-96]

I think this it is a very-well written article, and Heidi has a nice, flowing prose.

However (you knew that was coming /forum/wink.gif ), regarding the Celeron CPU

... Its reliance on a unique slot design and limitation to a motherboard with a 66 megahertz bus limit future upgradeability.

I think a brief mention of slotkets would be justified, as I am sure many of us are running PPGA370s on a Slot 1 board (notably BX6-2s). I did that with future-proofing in mind, following a recommendation on this very board /forum/smile.gif

On the whole, a very good article. Well done!

U-96

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[SoopaStar]

I thought it made interesting reading material, but i think some graphics could be handy so those who don't know much about each piece of the computer know what they are looking at or for.

--SS--

[Anakhonda]

First off.... it kicks pretty serious ****. It is obvious to all that a lot of time and effort went into it. Excellent work.

But, I wouldn't quite call it 'ultimate'. Six pages is not ultimate. Ultimate suggests that it contains everything you would ever want to know about anything, and (no offense) this did not.

And I must agree with Soopa... Graphics would do nothing but make the guide better.

[KillerBug]

Nice work, it should convert some computer wimps to power users, makes me tired, and most of my friends would doze off, but great for newbies.

[Dreadnaught]

I'm sure that there are, already in place, articles that could be hot linked for the "power user", but from what I've seen out there in the "real world", quite a few systems managers could benefit from what I've just read.

As to the pic's, well, links again would be the answer in my opinion. Why reinvent the wheel?

Anyway to answer you Scott, I think the article is appropriate for a wide range of people. Tell Heidi "Excellent Job"!

Later...Paul

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[welsh wizard]

interesting,well thought out, but who is it aimed at, most systems managers I deal with have their on copy of the old faithfull "PC Upgrade and Repair Bible Pro Edition" by Barry Press,IDG Books, siting either on their desk or close by, if aimed at a newbee who's just surfed in, then it will give him food for thought, and covers the basic ideas very well, my only question is regards drives, maybe I missed it some how, what happened to CD Roms, DVD, CD writers and rewriters, sound cards, and pros and cons of onboard video and sound.
as for hard drives when my customers use their computers for video capture and manipulation, 95% of them swear by a pair of SCSI rather than one, if they want 16 gig of drive most will go for 2X 10.2's some thing to do with belt and bracers.