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- Dec 13, 2005
So I've been tasked with locating a new PC for my grandmother. Since I'm down in Maryland and she's up in New England, I'd rather get her something at least semi pre-built, so if anything goes wrong and I can't figure it out over the phone, I can easily get her the 1-800 number and hopefully they have better luck.
She doesn't need much. All she does is e-mail, youtube, probably a few online card games, nothing too demanding.
I wasn't given a set budget, but I'd say $400-$500 max. Since the Zotac I use as an HTPC isn't bad with nothing but an E-450, 64GB SSD and 6GB ram, I was thinking of something along the lines of one of those little NUC/booksize barebones. Just something small with a celeron or an APU, an i3 at most, that I can toss an SSD and a few GB of ram in.
I guess my main question would be, does anyone have any real experience with these? What brands/product lines are good and all that. She uses windows so I was going to grab a license for that as well, so *nix compatibility isn't an issue. With my Zotac, I wasn't expecting much, so I'm not sure how it ranks.
She doesn't need much. All she does is e-mail, youtube, probably a few online card games, nothing too demanding.
I wasn't given a set budget, but I'd say $400-$500 max. Since the Zotac I use as an HTPC isn't bad with nothing but an E-450, 64GB SSD and 6GB ram, I was thinking of something along the lines of one of those little NUC/booksize barebones. Just something small with a celeron or an APU, an i3 at most, that I can toss an SSD and a few GB of ram in.
I guess my main question would be, does anyone have any real experience with these? What brands/product lines are good and all that. She uses windows so I was going to grab a license for that as well, so *nix compatibility isn't an issue. With my Zotac, I wasn't expecting much, so I'm not sure how it ranks.