{"id":8090,"date":"2023-05-23T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2023-05-23T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:00:53","slug":"buying-a-new-computer-dont-make-these-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/23\/buying-a-new-computer-dont-make-these-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying A New Computer? Don\u2019t Make These Mistakes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/youtube_header-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Buying A New Computer? Don\u2019t Make These Mistakes! - my bench n the shop.\" class=\"wp-image-8091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/youtube_header-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/youtube_header-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/youtube_header-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/youtube_header-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/youtube_header-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/youtube_header-900x506.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/youtube_header-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/youtube_header-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Are you buying a new computer? Don&#8217;t make these mistakes!  Of course, you probably know that we sell computers here at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/computer-specials\/?doing_wp_cron=1684855993.3436629772186279296875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keystone Computer Concepts<\/a><\/strong>.  However, we don&#8217;t have a problem with you buying a computer somewhere else and, hopefully, having us set it up.  Unfortunately, some customers have been buying them without checking with us first on what to look for when getting a new device.  Let&#8217;s see if we can clear some things up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\" id=\"h-what-we-don-t-sell-or-recommend\">What We Don&#8217;t Sell Or Recommend<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Let&#8217;s start with the things you don&#8217;t want in a computer. On our website, where we have computers listed for sale, we start out with what we don&#8217;t sell.  This would also be the same things we don&#8217;t recommend.  Here is that information, altered slightly for the blog post instead of our webpage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before you buy a new computer, let me explain what we neither sell nor do we recommend if you purchase elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-list\">\n<li>We do not sell&nbsp;refurbished&nbsp;computers. All our computers are brand new \u2013 whether we have them in stock or if we order them from our distributor.  Likewise, we don&#8217;t recommend that you purchase refurbished computers, especially if it&#8217;s to be your primary computing device.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All the computers we sell have at least 8GB of memory. Although you can find lots of computers online and in stores with 4GB of memory, Windows 10 and Windows 11 just don\u2019t run well unless there\u2019s 8GB of RAM or more.  If you buy elsewhere, don&#8217;t buy anything with less than 8GB of RAM.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Processors \u2013 In the AMD line of processors, we don\u2019t sell any computers that have less than a Ryzen 5 processor. We don\u2019t sell the Ryzen 3 or below. In the Intel processor line, our computers have at least an i5 processor. We don\u2019t sell the i3 or below. Why? We have found customers to be very unhappy with computers with a processor below our requirements. We prefer happy customers. Should you buy a computer from another company, we strongly suggest you follow these same processor guidelines regardless of what the clerk in the store tells you.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We don\u2019t sell by price. We will give you the best price for the hardware that is in a computer but we won\u2019t compromise our standards by selling refurbished or computers with 4GB of memory or computers with slower processors. You might find a computer at a lesser price than ours but rarely will you find one at a lower price with the same hardware.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\" id=\"h-don-t-buy-based-on-price\">Don&#8217;t Buy Based On Price<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Don&#8217;t buy based on price. (This section isn&#8217;t on our website.) Recently, we&#8217;ve had two customers who went out and bought laptops without running the specs by us. Ugh! We were disappointed in the quality of what they bought and we came to discover that they simply looked for the lowest price. As one of my favorite mentors, Zig Ziglar, used to say, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cYYrrQdR5hc?t=58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">there&#8217;s a difference between price and cost.<\/a><\/strong> There is almost little doubt that they will both be disappointed in the computers they purchased. (Whether they will admit that to others, well, that&#8217;s a different question!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-we-re-happy-to-help\">We&#8217;re Happy To Help<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Do you have to purchase a computer from us?  Will we be mad at you if you buy from a competitor?  Absolutely not, on both counts.  But, please, be sure to run the specs of something you&#8217;re looking at by us, before you purchase.  Again, it&#8217;s a question of price vs. cost!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Although this post is about buying a laptop, a desktop, or an all-in-one. we do have a video on buying a laptop.  You&#8217;ll find many of the same points as in this post.  (Note: the section about processor generations is slightly outdated as we&#8217;re at generations 11, 12, and 13 now.  However, the point of the message is still the same.) 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Don&#8217;t make these mistakes! Of course, you probably know that we sell computers here at Keystone Computer Concepts. However, we don&#8217;t have a problem with you buying a computer somewhere else and, hopefully, having us set it up. Unfortunately, some customers have been buying them without checking with us &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.4kcc.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/23\/buying-a-new-computer-dont-make-these-mistakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buying A New Computer? 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