Well i delivered my recommendations today.
Very good reasons why they need to upgrade, and what they should get.
They were very happy with my recommendations and reasons.
I recommended intel core i5 or amd athlon 2 x2, 4gb of memory (they'll eventually upgrade to 4 might as well get it now), big hard drive like 320 or 500gb, windows 7 home premium 64 bit, and to go with hp pavillion or dell optiplex.
I did get to mess around with a current hp pavillion p6580t today at city hall one of the staff got for free by default since the clinic ordered one too many. It already fit my recommendations for them, and it works great, so i tossed hp pavillion on the list. If they get more for free, cool, but they need to worry how to get them now. All is well in the universe.
More on the list was me coming in and making windows 7 look like xp for familiarity, and having everyone