- Feb 18, 2015
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Hi All,
My mother asked me to get her a new desktop computer as her old one is slowly but surely dying. In general, she will be using it for browsing the web, watching a few videos, word processing, excel and light photo retouching.
I haven't poked around this end of the market in a long time. What do you guys recommend? I was thinking about a third or fourth gen i5 system with 8 or 16 GB of ddr3 ram from ebay. If it doesn't come with an SSD, then I would throw one in before giving it to her.
I am looking to spend about 400 all in. Does this seem reasonable? Do I need to stretch up to 500?
Thanks for the help!
My mother asked me to get her a new desktop computer as her old one is slowly but surely dying. In general, she will be using it for browsing the web, watching a few videos, word processing, excel and light photo retouching.
I haven't poked around this end of the market in a long time. What do you guys recommend? I was thinking about a third or fourth gen i5 system with 8 or 16 GB of ddr3 ram from ebay. If it doesn't come with an SSD, then I would throw one in before giving it to her.
I am looking to spend about 400 all in. Does this seem reasonable? Do I need to stretch up to 500?
Thanks for the help!