Folks, this continues to be one fascinating thread, am curently saving for a hi-fi upgrade but thoughts of new Quad kit are currently evaportating as this seems to be the way forward. so i'm here to ask for your assistance please.

as yet we dont have a PC at home so can anybody please recomend a spec for one as we'll be buying in the new year - needs to work with usual internet stuff and be photo friendly (photography is my other interest).

in making any recomendations please clarify any abreviations - sorry to ask so much of you all but i'm currently the kind of person that thinks Windows are something you look through, and Apple is a fruit.......

And finally, appreciate i'm new to these boards would anyone out there happy to let me see / hear their HDD based system in operation - home is West Yorks but i have a car...

Thanks in anticipation and all the best to all

Chris