Purchasing a P.C

Monitor

LG E1942C-BN LCD LED 18.5" VGA Monitor Product Description

Enjoy the clear and bright images with LED backlight, LG E42 Series. The brilliant LED backlit display crystal clear images on the screen and real lifelike colours, black and slim design. LG's Mega Contrast Ratio contrast ratio for superior technology, which improves image clarity and purity. Save as compared to conventional LED display 30% more energy and be the most efficient. The cable manager helps you to order the cable clutter, which hangs off the monitor. If possible, try to position the monitor on the wall in order to save space.

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Hard Drive 

WD Green 2 TB Internal hard drive Serial ATA-600 3.5" WD20EARX

£60 

600 MBps, 64 MB, 3.5" x 1/3H, 2 years warranty, 10.2 cm

As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to run those drives increases as well. WD Caviar Green drives make it possible for energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.

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Mouse

Logitech B110 Optical USB Mouse - 3-btn Mouse - Wired - USB

£3 

Optical, PC, Mac, UNIX

Go with the mouse experts for built-in quality and durability. You'll gain comfort and precision - and raise the bar on productivity.

Keyboard

Logitech Wireless Touch K400 Wireless Keyboard - wireless - UK

£25 

PC, 2.4 GHz

A large 3.5-inch, built-in touchpad makes vertical scrolling intuitive. And multi-touch navigation makes it easier than ever to point and scroll your way through the web. Setup couldn't be easier - you simply plug the tiny wireless receiver into a USB port and enjoy. Even the hot keys work right out of the box without software. Whether you're surfing the web or e-mailing a friend, typing is just plain easy with sleek, low-profile keys that feel good and barely make a sound.

The hard drive will help with your large video files.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF PACKAGES

Database Packages

Microsoft Access – Microsoft Access is a database package that can let you do various important things within the office, it lets you produce projects of different sorts such as a marketing project where you can store and see sales etc within e.g. a school or business.

You can use it for schools as you can use it for students for work or even a register.

Uses

Access tables support a variety of standard field types, indices, and referential integrity. Access also includes a query interface, forms to display and enter data, and reports for printing. The underlying Jet database, which contains these objects, is multiuser-aware and handles record-locking and referential integrity including cascading updates and deletes.

There are template databases within the program and for download from their website. These options are available upon starting Access and allow users to enhance a database with predefined tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros.

(The costs of the packages are £99.99 for the 2007 edition and £90.99 for the 2010 edition)

Oracle - Oracle is a powerful relational database management system that offers a large feature set. Along with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle is widely regarded as one of the two most popular full-featured database systems on the market today.

Storage

The Oracle RDBMS stores data logically in the form of table spaces and physically in the form of data files. Table spaces can contain various types of memory segments, such as Data Segments, Index Segments, etc. Segments in turn comprise one or more extents.

Extents comprise groups of contiguous data blocks. Data blocks form the basic units of data storage. Newer versions of the database can also include a partitioning feature this allows the partitioning of tables based on different set of keys. Specific partitions can then be easily added or dropped to help manage large data sets.

(The cost of the package is £140.09)

The package I would recommend would be Microsoft Access as it offers you more and it costs less.

Spreadsheet Packages

Microsoft Excel – Microsoft Excel is a very good and important spreadsheet package as it lets you do a good variety of things within the area of ICT work and other work within the ‘Office’.

Uses – the uses of Microsoft Excel are for spreadsheet information containing such things as:

Invoices – An invoice is a bill that is sent to the customer for purchase.

You can use spreadsheets for any school or business as you can make different types of table, examples are – If it was for a school you can make a spreadsheet for the class register which will contain such things as what pupils are absent, present, sick and even exeat.

You could use it for work as you can work out sales, quantity of items and profit etc as you can use different formulas and functions such as, (SUM, MIN, MAX, and AVERAGE).

You can also use a variety of charts including bar charts, pie charts, scatter charts and line charts.

The price of the package (2010 Version) is £119.99

Apache OpenOffice Impress – OpenOffice Impress is a very good spreadsheet package as it lets you do a variety of things within the area of working with ICT and other work within the ‘Office’.

Again you can use it for organizations such as a School or Hospital.

Example school registers for a class or hospital registers for a patient who has come in, reason for being there, date of birth etc.

OpenOffice is a free download but if money is not a problem I highly suggest that you get MS Excel as it is far quicker, better, easier and you have more options to choose from with Excel.

Internet Access

I have researched and compared two top Broadband services for you and your children.

These broadband services are:

Sky Broadband

BT Infinity

Sky Broadband

There are three types of broadband packages that SKY offers and they are:

Broadband Lite

Broadband Unlimited

Fibre Unlimited

I have found that Broadband Unlimited will work out best for you and your children as it is affordable and has all the features you and your children need.

WITH Sky TV you can get this package FREE for six months and only costing £7.50 a month after that, along with SKY TV for £21.50 a month and Sky line rental for £14.50 a month, it also includes FREE weekend calls.

WITHOUT Sky TV you can get the package FREE for six months usually costing £10 a month, with Sky weekend talk (free weekend calls) and Sky line rental for £14.50 a month.

Features

·         Unlimited internet browsing and downloading with no monthly usage cap.

·         We won’t slow your broadband speeds down at peak times.

·         Includes the new Sky Hub, our best ever wireless router, worth £69.

·         Inclusive and unlimited internet when you’re out and about.
with Wi-Fi Hotspots from the Cloud.

·         With no usage caps, it’s ideal for TV on demand .

·         Inclusive weekend calls to UK landlines with Sky Talk Weekends.

·         24/7 technical support .

·         Download free Parental Controls on up to 3 PCs at home.

·         12 month trial of McAfee Internet Security Suite.

·         Hassle free switching – no need for a new number.

·         Sky Broadband and Talk has the best overall customer service compared with BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk.

BT Infinity

There are two packages for BT Infinity these are:

More Broadband with superfast BT Infinity and Unlimited Broadband with superfast BT Infinity.

Unlimited is better as it is quicker and you get unlimited access but More broadband is more suitable for you and your children and is affordable.

More Broadband with superfast BT Infinity

·         More broadband is a very good offer that offers a lot including:

·         Superfast BT Infinity

·         Free Unlimited Wi-Fi

·         Advanced Security

·         BT Home Hub

More broadband is very good a very fast as it has up to 38Mb download speed and up to 9.5Mb upload speed, it is a good package for storage as it gives you 40GB of usage.

Evening and Weekend calls are included and you have the option to add Unlimited Anytime calls. Also if you join now they will throw in a £50 Gift Card for Sainsbury’s.

This package is £18 a month but £9 a month for the first 3 months + you can add line rental from £10.75 and a £25 Activation Charge and if you want TV you can get BT TV from £5 a month.

                     

 

PC Game - Need for Speed: the Run

Description

It’s called The Run. An illicit high-stakes race across the country. The only way to get your life back is to be the first from San Francisco to New York. No speed limits. No rules. No allies. All you have are your driving skills and sheer determination as you battle hundreds of the world’s most notorious drivers on the country’s most dangerous roads. In Need for Speed the Run you’ll weave through dense urban centers rocket down icy mountain passes and navigate narrow canyons at breakneck speeds all the while evading a relentless police force prepared – and willing – to use lethal force to take you down.

AND IT IS ONLY £6

Bethesda the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Description

The Empire of Tamriel is on the edge. The High King of Skyrim has been murdered. Alliances form as claims to the throne are made. In the midst of this conflict a far more dangerous ancient evil is awakened. Dragons long lost to the passages of the Elder Scrolls have returned to Tamriel. The future of Skyrim even the Empire itself hangs in the balance as they wait for the prophesized Dragonborn to come; a hero born with the power of The Voice and the only one who can stand amongst the dragons.

A great game at a great price of £15.

 I have researched a good USB stick for you to store your pictures and to upload your pictures from.

Keep your information and multimedia backed up with the SanDisk 32GB Cruzer Edge USB Memory Stick.

Flexible functioning

The SanDisk Cruzer Edge boasts a retractable design, offering protective and suitable use thanks to its USB 2.0 connector. So you can backup all your music, video content or work documents quickly and efficiently.

Keep your data secret

Thanks to the added SanDisk Secure Access software, you can keep all your data safe from prying eyes and you also have the bonus of secure online backup protection offered by SanDisks partner as you upload and store your files in another safe location.

Take your favourite multimedia and those important data files wherever you go with no difficulty whatsoever, thanks to the SanDisk Cruzer Edge USB Memory Stick.

Along with this I have picked out a HDMI cable for you and your children for your photo and your computer, especially when gaming, this HDMI cable will give you the full experience when gaming with its HD effect and brilliant picture.

This even helps with your Television.

• 1080P/1080i/720p: All lengths support Sky-HD, Sky 3D, Virgin HD, Freeview HD and Blu-ray
• HDMI Standard: Version 1.4
• 26AWG 99.999% Oxygen Free Copper conductors
• 59% more copper area than "standard" HDMI cables
• Individually screened differential pair with AL/Mylar wrap
• Fully shielded connectors for ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) protection
• HDMI Ethernet Channel and Audio Return Channel

I have researched a quality colour printer at a reasonable price for you and your family, for pictures for children and for you to print your photos off.

          OKI C511dn A4 Colour LED Printer

Ø  26ppm Colour Print Ø  30ppm Mono Print Ø  250 Sheet Input Tray Ø  100 Sheet Multi-Purpose Input Tray Ø  USB & Network Ø  Automatic Double Sided Printing Ø  7.5 seconds First page Ø  266MHz Processor Ø  Host Based Ø  64MB (Max 64MB) RAM Ø  Windows Ø  2400 dpi Print

£50 Cash back & Free 3 Year On-Site Warranty + Free Sat-Nav and free next day delivery.