Thursday 22 April 2010

Should You Really Buy A New Computer?

Being a computer-owner certainly isn't cheap. There seems to be a new computer coming onto the market every day and they always seem to be better that the one you currently own. This is why people get addicted to buy the latest computers and computer gadgets.

Of course, where does this money come from? Some people also have bad credit which means getting financing isn't easy. So they end up searching for no credit check computer financing companies.

This is very expensive because the company won't do a credit check and therefore will assume you have very bad credit. Because they are taking a bigger risk with you they will charge you more. Either you will pay high interest rates or you will simply pay more for the computer than you would pay if you went elsewhere.

Instead of buying a new expensive computer perhaps you will want to think about making the computer you currently own work better. People stuff their computers will all sorts of files such as music, video and photos.

The more you have on your hard disk the slower it's going to be. So think about buying an external hard drive. You can buy ones that are 1.5 TB and they don't cost all that much money. Move everything that you don't really need on a day-to-day basis to your external hard drive you should see a big difference.

If you have lots of useless icons on your desktop you should get rid of them. Move any files that are just sitting there into a proper documents folder.

It might be that these measures are enough to keep your current computer. Of course, if you bought your computer many years ago or you now need to do more advanced work such as video editing, there might not be any other choice.