- Joined
- Dec 16, 2004
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ
OK, so the girl's laptop, that she has been using for around 5 years now, is starting to give her serious problems. It recently received a new hard drive and her sister's boyfriend (a computer engineering student) put Windows 2k on it and it now runs slower than dirt. I decided that I'm going to be putting together a custom system for her and wanted everyone's opinion/advice as to what should go into it.
I'd like to spend in the $500-600 US range, and I already have a case. She basically just uses her laptop as a desktop (it isn't stable enough to be taken anywhere really), and she mainly just uses it to surf the net, do emails, write up some stuff (she's a school teacher). She has never even known the luxury of having a cd-burner, let alone a dvd-burner which I've thought about throwing into it just to give her a serious jaw-dropping effect. My main problem is that I tend to look at higher end stuff and always think more = more. I'm worried that if I configure something for her myself I'll give her a system that she may only utilize to about 10% of it's capacity, so I'm depending on the OCForums to keep me grounded.
So, budget is $500-$600US, I have a case (atx form factor), what are everyone's opinions?
I'd like to spend in the $500-600 US range, and I already have a case. She basically just uses her laptop as a desktop (it isn't stable enough to be taken anywhere really), and she mainly just uses it to surf the net, do emails, write up some stuff (she's a school teacher). She has never even known the luxury of having a cd-burner, let alone a dvd-burner which I've thought about throwing into it just to give her a serious jaw-dropping effect. My main problem is that I tend to look at higher end stuff and always think more = more. I'm worried that if I configure something for her myself I'll give her a system that she may only utilize to about 10% of it's capacity, so I'm depending on the OCForums to keep me grounded.
So, budget is $500-$600US, I have a case (atx form factor), what are everyone's opinions?