I am considering buying my own computer soon. Can someone breakdown the cost if I get it with these programs?

Question

I hope to buy my own computer soon. Here is a list of the stuff I am looking for:
1. I want Windows Vista (Have been using it for almost a year and haven't had many problems)

Now for the programs I wish to buy
1. Adobe Photoshop
2. Microsoft Office (I think that includes Word, Excel Access, Powerpoint, and all sorts of others) I'm not into that so I wouldn't know if office had all of those programs or not
3. Imovie

and can someone suggest a good antivirus?

Thanks

Answer 1

Most computers today come with Vista. It's not free (it's in the price), but you can't buy many computers without it.



1) Photoshop. Use GIMP. It's about as good and it's free.



2) Office - Open Office is actually better at a few things than Microsoft Office (it's saved my bacon a few times when MS Office co9uldn't read a file, or refused to.) And OO is free.

Answer 2

1. Why? It's the 2nd worst OS out of Redmond (the worst was Windows ME).

2. Why? The GIMP is free and does nearly everything that Photoshop does.

3. Why? OpenOffice is free and does nearly everything that Microsoft Office does.

4. iMovie is simply not available on anything except Mac OSX.



If you don't get Windows you don't have to worry about antivirus.

Answer 3

windows vista comes with most computers, but separeetly its about $200, photoshop is about $600-$700, Microsoft office is about $140 (student version that has the stuff you want) iMovie is for Macs only



and get McAffee... i have it, my computer works beautifully



But you may wanna consider waiting, windows 7 is coming out and it is rumored to be better than vista, i got the windows 7 beta for free and i notice no difference (except the tons of beta-bugs)... just throwing that out there... and you can always try a mac, thought you wanna make sure you have a mac and a pc for the stuff you cant do on a mac.... if you dont want to boot camp (which lets you run windows on a mac by rebooting and choosing a different OS)



There's windows movie maker that comes with the computer.... but good luck trying to find something as beautiful as iMovie, iMovie is a great fusion of simplicity and effective movie making.... yup, windows movie maker is all i can think of. you want to edit and make nice movies? get a mac, thats what they're known for





And as for Gimp and Open Office, just google it..... or try www.cnet.com and click on the downloads tab, then enter "gimp" or "openoffice" into the search bar

Answer 4

Anti-virus--- AVG. Free and will not cause all the problems and headaches that McAfee and Norton will give you.



Agree,

GIMP, OpenOffice, Firefox for browser.

Answer 5

hey man I have good news, you can easily get all of those programs on the internet for free. Warning, this is illegal (although hundreds of thousands of people do it and no one gets caught). Except imove which is made for macs only



a good anti virus would be norton anti virus