Recommended PC/System for Web Development

[BPurvis]

I am starting to write web pages from home and I am buying a new pc. What manufacturer, model, speed, etc. is recommended, whether it is a complete system or customized?? :confused:

[jpmoriarty]

as far as im concerned pretty much the only thing you'd need a "beefed up" pc for is graphics editing for the web pages - if you're just doing basic coding then i would think bottom of the range woulld have power far in excess of what you would need.

Bare in mind most of web editing is editing text files - i think you would probbaly be okay with a pentium 2 400, but i'd challenge you to find one of those... i think your main poroblem is operating systems - ifyou buy bottom of the range and it runs XP okay then it will be more than enough for web development.

And i would say that you'll probably have a lot of things open at one time, so more memory is better, but again mostly they're just text files, so 128 meg ram is probably fine, and i think that's probably entry level now.

If, however, you want to play c&c generals (which you should) then you'll need a good spec, i'd say 2+ gig processor, 512 meg ram and an 80 gig hdd. but just for web development? i would say minimum reqd is a pentium 2 400, 128 meg ram, 20 gig hdd.