Need a new Desktop for my mother.

[Irisel]

Anyone have a suggestions for a good bang for your buck all-in-one or system for $300-400, need to get my mom a new computer.
Hoping for at least 4GB RAM, at least 300-500GB memory. My problem lies in that I can only find Celeron processors, and trying to get at least one step better.

Know of any good deals out there?

[Bakis]

Are you sure its not more suitable with a laptop?
If she do nothing fancy with it a budget laptop would be nice and also save space.

[Deleted]

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

[Msshammy]

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

Nice link. I was going to ask what is she going to be doing. Since it's for "mom" I would imagine a G3258 or an AMD APU would probably suit her just fine. I built my dad an APU and he runs dual monitors with about 20 programs running for work without breaking a sweat. With either of these processors you should be able to afford 8gig of ram. Which is mandatory for anybody now days if you ask me.

[chazus]

Moving this to the build/upgrade subforum

[Irisel]

I've always figured you get more for your money with a desktop or all-in-one than a laptop, but a laptop would suite just fine as well.

As for what she needs it for, is basic mom stuff, nothing more than Excel and Facebook.

[Deleted]

This is pretty much easy, depending if you need o/s or not.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($102.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($41.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($43.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($51.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($29.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts Green 380W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $309.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-30 07:17 EDT-0400

[Lathais]

I've always figured you get more for your money with a desktop or all-in-one than a laptop, but a laptop would suite just fine as well.

As for what she needs it for, is basic mom stuff, nothing more than Excel and Facebook.

It depends. For basic internet browsing and what not though you should be able to find a $200-300 Laptop. Since that comes with OS, monitor and keyboard it gets tough to beat for low-end systems. I mean sure, you can put together a build like Kost's above but if you need OS+Monitor add almost $200 to that.

[Deleted]

It depends. For basic internet browsing and what not though you should be able to find a $200-300 Laptop. Since that comes with OS, monitor and keyboard it gets tough to beat for low-end systems. I mean sure, you can put together a build like Kost's above but if you need OS+Monitor add almost $200 to that.

Alternatively, you can buy something like the Chromebook for ~$250 for the 4GB versions, and that should suffice for most basic computing usages.