Graphic denoting Vista offerings based on value, click on each
Remember as you read that our intent is to completely inform you based on our extensive experience with the latest and ultimate “techo gear”.
Idealism, Excellence and Full Disclosure are our main core commitments so though you can easily find all these components using safe Web Surfing practices and build your own dream workstation, we offer those of you who hold your time as your most valuable commodity (as we do) to consider getting what you need from us, allowing us to idealistically build and configure a Windows Vista Ultimate PC (Home Premium or Professional Vista) or for that matter a Windows XP Pro based system if you prefer to wait a while on Vista, either way you will get an a very powerful, very able, advertising free, fully configured, totally idealistic workstation you will find hugely satisfying to use day in and day out...
The Specifications and Price are available below!
Windows Vista “Ultimate” along with several other flavors of Vista are likely to show up January, 2007. So far two basic categories of Vista exist, basically Home and Business. On the Home side there’s the “Starter Edition” which we won’t talk about to much here simply because it’s too basic and we have no plans to sell any systems based on it preferring a Ubuntu or Freespire Linux based low budget PC instead. “Home Basic” is designed for lower end PCs that may not have a dedicated GPU (integrated video vs. a nice high powered video adapter like the GeForce 7 series) or lower processing capabilities. “Home Premium” would be our minimum choice with it’s lovely 3D, Aero glass interface, lots of Home Entertainment, productivity and home networking support, including easy WiFi setup and security.
For Business versions we are expecting to see a “Small Business Edition”, a “Professional Edition” kind of like WinXP Pro but with broader more flexible support for all business sizes and “Enterprise Edition” which is expected to be very secure-able among many useful IT manager inviting features.
At the top of Microsoft’s Vista product offerings is “Ultimate” and it really is expected to be the ultimate computing experience both from visual/interactive and productivity aspect. It can also be authentically stated that to run Vista Ultimate, you really will need ultimate hardware to go along with it to truly get an Ultimate PC user experience.
Thus we offer detailed specifications of our “NBP Vista Ultimate” PC with reasons very specifically why.
First let’s list the specifications with links to each component:
- MSI K8NGM2-NBP Socket 939 for AMD Athlon 64 CPU
- MSI NX7950GX2 Dual 7900 GPU PCI-E Video
- Acer 22” widescreen flat panel display
- AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4800+ CPU
- 4GB of Corsair DDR3200 C2 Memory
- WD 150GB “Raptor” 10,000rpm OS/App Hard Drive
- WD RE2 500GB 7200rpm Data Storage Hard Drive
- Plextor PX755 SATA DVD Burner
- Apevia X-QPack II Aluminum SFF case
- EnerMax “Liberty” 500watt modular PSU
- Logitech Z-5500 5.1 505watt Speaker set
- Logitech Cordless Desktop S 510 Keyboard & Mouse
So why is the list of hardware so important to your Vista experience? Well, start by clicking on each of the above hardware components, then read on...
At first glance at all this techno-goodness one might think we are going for a Home Entertainment-Internet-Gaming kind of specification but in truth we are and are appealing to, Power Users who’ve been around and know very clearly what they want which namely is:
- Performance (though not the fastest, still the best overall)
- Stability (nVidia NBP & AMD make for excellent stability)
- Reliability (day in day out reliability for many years of use)
- Longevity (the total system has potential to go 5+ years)
- Security (secure by default - ActiveArmor & much more)
- Attractiveness (cool look & cool running)
- Completeness (the most complete OS config in the world)
- Ability (there is just about Nothing this system can’t do)
Performance is not only about things happening fast but also opening fast, running fast, running multiple things at a time, being completely secure with no performance penalty, ...
