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Best home PC build for ~$400? (or commercial)

Aug 9, 2016 9:53PM PDT

what is the best pc build you could make for someone that predominarly dose document making, spreadsheets, photo editing, and no gaming? a typical "home" PC with win 10

Every prebuilt system I come across has last gen hardware that doesnt fit the $400-500 bill.

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Seen this
Aug 10, 2016 4:11AM PDT
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I'd consider a laptop.
Aug 10, 2016 8:51AM PDT

Just last week my mom's laptop went out so it's back here to see what I can do.

I have a spare 2006 Dell Inspiron e1506 with a 120GB SSD, 2GB RAM that boots and gets a google search done, from power up in 33 seconds. So it's not asking a lot if you want to create documents.

That laptop's cost is a little hard to figure out since it was my son's college laptop in 2006. Family members know to hand over dead machines to me since I ran the PC repair shops and might have a spare machine in times of need.

So it was 30 bucks for the SSD, 20 bucks for a new battery (all from Amazon) so figure it's a 99 buck laptop. You can do better.

http://computers.woot.com/offers/dell-inspiron-3542-15-6-i3-touch-laptop-7?ref=cp_cnt_wp_2_1 is 299$ and if you ever change it to SSD it will fly.

There's still the W10 upgrade open to those that know CNET till the end of the month.