Just a thought...for $300, you can get a laptop that would do email, youtube, etc perfectly fine (a real laptop...not a netbook)...you just can't touch that price building it yourself, at least not after you pay for a screen and windows 7. Oh, and the case would certainly be on the small side.
I'd agree with KillerBug - if you have a monitor already lined up and you'd be willing to install Ubuntu or such, then you could build a reasonable dual core system for that.
Originally posted by KillerBug: Just a thought...for $300, you can get a laptop that would do email, youtube, etc perfectly fine (a real laptop...not a netbook)...you just can't touch that price building it yourself, at least not after you pay for a screen and windows 7. Oh, and the case would certainly be on the small side.
He actually bought a laptop yesterday :P
I guess this topic is moot now.
It has what looks like a vga port on it so I guess I am going to put that $300-400 towards a monitor for it. He has the mind set that computers don't really do anything and it's the monitor that makes up the computer. Any time I go to frys with him he will always say "WOW LOOK AT THIS COMPUTER" and it's nothing but the apple cinema display.
Quote: . He has the mind set that computers don't really do anything and it's the monitor that makes up the computer. Any time I go to frys with him he will always say "WOW LOOK AT THIS COMPUTER" and it's nothing but the apple cinema display.
its usually people that know very little about computers that say stuff like that.its whats inside the box that counts.yeah a good moniter looks great but if the parts inside the box are not very good the computers not as good.
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Originally posted by xboxdvl2: its usually people that know very little about computers that say stuff like that.its whats inside the box that counts.yeah a good moniter looks great but if the parts inside the box are not very good the computers not as good.
I'll just point out that $300-$400 on a decent monitor is a bit of a waste if the laptop only has VGA, as the image quality of VGA is far below that of DVI/HDMI and as a result, picture quality gains from buying a high-end monitor will probably be minimal.
