kaled - 5:19 pm on Jan 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

Computer hardware is seriously good these days and has been for a while. Were is not for Windows bloatware and certain new devices, most people could manage happily with a five year old computer, maybe even older.

I upgraded my sister's desktop over Christmas, replacing a dead dvd-rom drive with a dual-layer dvd-rewriter and increasing the memory from 256MB to 1280 MB : total cost £43.00 (about $60.00). It has a 2GHz Athlon processor and runs XP Home - it should not need replacing for several years even though it only has a 30GB hard disk.

Kaled.