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Moe DeLoughan

On 3/30/2014 10:15 PM, wrote:

Or buy an off-lease computer with WinXP Pro that is only less than 5
years old with DDR3 ram and SATA hard drive instead of his ancient
ide HD and DDR2 ram.

Bingo. A lot of electronics retailers and electronics recycling
companies sell refurbished second-hand pcs dirt cheap. These are
usually off-lease business models. A guy I know recently replaced his
ancient XP box with a refurbed IBM-era Lenovo running Win 7 Pro from
Microcenter. A big improvement over what he'd had, for only $130.00.

Speaking of which, searching the inventory of retailers such as
Microcenter will still find new pcs running Win 7. In fact, a quick
check of Microcenter's website just turned up more than two dozen Win
7 desktop models. So if you really don't want to wrestle with Win 8
(and I can't blame you), you can still choose new and get an OS that
doesn't require completely relearning how to use the pc.