Computer for the wife
At home, my wife & I run a 2 computer set up. I have the relatively pimp machine, and my wife has the older (4 years old or so?) computer. Cable internet w/wireless router. Last night my wife finally got fed up with the speed of the old machine, and it's time to buy her a new one. I don't need anything high end here; my wife's computer activities consist of word processing, instant messaging, low end gaming, web browsing & messing around with digital photography. The features I would like in a new machine include:
CD Burner
Floppy drive
Decent HD size (160+ GB)
512+ MB RAM
We are perfectly content to cannibalize components from the old machine. However, this will likely only include perephials, the RAM in the old machine is all 128 sticks & I don't think anything else is worth taking. I will need to get new speakers, but obviously I can just pick these up wherever. I need MS Office as well, but I think I can scrounge up a shady copy.
Am I best off just buying a low end machine from Dell, or am I missing another good option here?
jvs
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