It's a requirement for a girl who is stating a course in IT at tech. I'm helping her family out with computing info. Is it CPU heavy? I am looking at building her a desktop pc to do it and other coursework on it. I was going to see into a 6 core AMD build but I don't know if that's overkill for her course. It can't not help having 6 cores though. She wouldn't be gaming on it either, purely for her course and all the IT stuff that it will entail over 2 years.
Windows 8 and Dreamweaver were listed as preferred technology/software for her to have for the course on a machine.
As it's a specific I.T. HND she is doing, a decent machine will be needed to cope with the tasks.