£350 pound system?

The_KiD · 5 Oct 2006 at 11:50

I have been asked by a neighbour if I can find them a PC for their dad.

He is going to be using it for word processing, email and internet and possibly some photo's and stuff.

They have a max budget of £350 and I was wondering what you guys could come up with for that price.

Remember he is not going to an uber leet gamer or anything, so some nice stuff like speakers and TFT would be good (but the TFT aint essential).

Also I would prefer it not to be anything Celeron or equivalent.

The_KiD · 5 Oct 2006 at 13:54

Nice one guys this is a great bit of work.

Unfortunately he does need an OS, but will get an XP home OEM. Also they can then choose if they want the TFT or not as I have some spare CRT monitors they can have if not.

Thanks dudes!

The_KiD · 5 Oct 2006 at 15:28

thanks dudes!

The_KiD · 6 Oct 2006 at 08:38

FunkyCowie said:
Linux is only complex if you want to do more than basic stuff and by the sound of it a linux distribution like Ubuntu might fit his needs without him needing to delve too deeply and be less resource hungry. Then they could have the LCD or CRT but with better CPU/RAM?

Yes but I will have to support this user and my knowledge of linux is the same as that of the South African Howler Monkeys mating ritual.