[Pavel]

I bought a new Dell XPS 8300 when my wife's computer died. She will get my current system to use it for e-mails, internet and office aps. I thought an extensive help from geeks at DP review. It was very instructive and anybody thinking of buying an inexpensive system which is good for photography could find use in here. Here is a link: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readfl...e=38373103. Do not be discouraged by the initial questions I posed in my ignorance and read on, as my understanding improved. I would have spent considerably more without the advice. Perhaps as much as Julian, although probably less. Let me know what you think. The computer is still sitting in the box. I will report back in about a week, if there is interest. Dell monitor (30" Ultrasharp) is great, although it was a fiddle to bring the brightness down to 100 cd/m2 - the brightness I use for color managing my system to gwet a good match with the paper brightens.

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