On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:46:20 -0500, "Terry Coombs"
wrote:

Oren wrote:
On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:15:24 -0400, wrote:

As far as computers are concerned, I've given up building them - I
buy ready built with a warranty and I keep my hair!!!

Ditto. 20 years ago I could make 3-5 hundred dollars and still be
under a market retail cost for a lesser machine.

Just bought the bride a new machine under $500. 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD,
Win10 and the whole 9 yards -- less a monitor. An ASUS which is a very
good mobo.

I gotta say Oren , I have less than that in all 3 machines . They all have
at least 8 Gb RAM , quad core processors . the media box has 2 1T drives and
the other 2 both have a 320 main and at least 250Gb aux storage . 2 have new
mobo's , all have (or will have when it arrives) new RAM , "new" processors
, and 64 bit OS's .

I still have two of her former machines that I can play with. Bringing
one past Vista to Win10 would be half the cost of what I paid for new.
And it has the latest fancy features, faster CPU, RAM, HDD, etc. If I
sold them I could recover some cost and be less than $500.

And I didn't spend time shopping :-o