Re: Garage sale pc

Option 3 is good. How old are your kids?

If your kids are:
0-5 any basic PC is just fine. Their educational games are pretty simple.
5-12 spend a bit more cash and get one with 1 GB of RAM and a decent
graphics card. The games this range normally play can get to be big.
13+ if they are paying lots of games... well tell them to buy their own PC
;-). You can get a really good gaming PC for around a grand.

My 2 pennies.

On 2/27/06, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We bought a garage sale PC with 98 on it.  Problems with it is that it
> seems to lock up a bit.  I guess I've gotten used to the stability of 2000
> and XP (granted any rabid anti MS person will think that's an oxymoron).
> Another problem is that my wife would feel better using it than my work
> one.  But she uses Excel alot to do books for her mom (who uses some
> version of Windows) and a friends ceramics shop.
>
> Kids want to play games on it.
>
> I had a local downtown business do some work, like swap out a CD drive for
> a DVD drive.  This business caters to home users.  Pretty low key but did
> nice work in the past.
>
> I'm thinking of:
> - having the local business "reload" the computer with 98 to get all the
> crap that the previous owner had on it off.  Then I'd still have to get an
> office suite.
> - erasing the disk and loading linux on it.  And some open office stuff.
> - Getting a new PC with the latest version of windows for the home user,
> and an office suite.
>
> The thought process is -not- to use this as a learning machine for me to
> learn linux.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Rob Berendt
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