Wanted: Pro to build dual boot Ubuntu

[NoOp]

On 09/21/2014 12:01 PM, Charles Irons wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> After reading your various advices again, I hope my response makes sense
> and any comments are most welcome.
> 
> Doug: I agree Win 7 will be better for me if I can find a source here
> and will use it to shrink its partition to 20% of the hard drive.
> 
> Colin & Pep3ts: I have saved the link to Team Viewer in case Unity still
> gives me trouble. The new PC's graphics card should be fine.
> 
> NoOp/Gary: This old PC only has 1GB memory/RAM and its Ubuntu + Win XP
> was setup in 2005 with a helper and no detail of the process is in my skull.
> Your very good suggestions would mean this old head must learn more new
> components and applications.
> 
> So my intentions:
> Get a new PC in a desktop case so I don't need to get down low and my
> 19" monitor can sit on it when we downsize.
> The first quote is for a 64 bit I3 motherboard with 3.4 GHz cpu, 4GB
> DDR3 memory, 1000 GB SATA 3.5" hard drive and a R/W DVD.
> Learn Win 7 before trying more steps.
> Make Win 7 shrink its own partition to 200 GB.
> Install Ubuntu 14.04.1 that I have downloaded but must check its
> integrity (seems smaller 625 MB than expected 981 MB)
> Just found how to MD5sum/hash.
> 
> That is my state of play right now . If you have stayed with me all this
> distance , I thank you sincerely for your stamina.
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Good luck with finding a retail machine with Win7... Nearly all machines
now come with Win 8.x, and if they do offer Win7 they'll charge you an
additional $100 or so. I also highly recommend more memory in a new
machine. Memory is cheap these days (considerably cheaper than trying to
upgrade the 1GB in your old machine), and were it me I'd opt to buy a
machine with more memory rather than one with more disk. It's easy to
add disks, a bit more complicated to add memory later. This is getting
slightly off topic for this list, so if you'd like, feel free to contact
me off list for any additional suggestions etc.

Gary