Need New PC for the Office: WIn 7?

[Le Rouge]

So, I need a new office PC (law office, that is).
My interns suggested:
Core 2 Duo E7500
ASUS MOBO P5QPL-AM
DDR II 800 2*2GB Patriot Signature
320GB Hitachi Deskstar 7200 16MB SATA II
Gigabyte 4350 521MB
Golden Tiger 450W Real 12cm Fan (24pin)
Win 7 Pro.

Price in NIS: 2735, which is roughly GBP 460, but on this you have no effect...

What do you say? I basicaly hated Vista and hate Office 2007, but no one would sell XP...

[Penfold]

Personally I've had a few of those Deskstar HDD's break.

[Benny]

Nowt wrong with 7, I never went to vista and was quite happy with my XP thank you.

Win 7 is good in my opinion....and to counter the previous, I've had deskstars that haven't broken. (although they have a reputation)

[kregoron]

Ive had a few deskstars die myself, but mainly the older series..
But these days, afaik they are just as reliable as WD drives

[delanvital]

Nowt wrong with 7, I never went to vista and was quite happy with my XP thank you.

Win 7 is good in my opinion....and to counter the previous, I've had deskstars that haven't broken. (although they have a reputation)

2 x ditto to Benny's.

[T-Bag]

Vista was far better than XP in just about every way. All you needed to do was turn off UAC. Office 2007 is better that 2003 in every way once you use it for 10-15mins equation editor built in, excel doesn't scroll to 55,000 odd when you go past the bottom of your spreadsheet etc etc.

If you had a computer in the last 3-4 years and weren't using Vista there is a good chance you had a 64bit CPU and were operating it in 32bit mode, and if you had 4GB or more ram you weren't using all of it. If you put it on that system you're throwing away power. Which if it's in a Law office for internet and word processing I guess is fine, but any program requiring cpu power will suffer even though the processor you have in there is decent.

Windows 7 is a step forwards again, nothing huge, different task bar and less intrusive UAC, but otherwise it's essentially Vista.

The spec is probably a little high if it's just for office work, could save Ã,£50 or more off that easily I'd have thought.

[Tutonic]

If you want a nice office workstation, I can reccomend the Dell Precision range: http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/business/Laptops/precndt/ct.aspx?refid=precndt&s=bsd&cs=ukbsdt1

They are seriously fast, and nicely built.