[jyl]

I haven't played w/ PCs for a very long time.

The biz down the hall from me moved out. I went over to say bye, he pointed to a bunch of computers and said one's not spoken for, you want it? So I got a free Dell Optiplex 9020 SFF desklop PC running Win 10. This is an older machine but decent, i5 processor and well made.

I don't really need it, but an older, retired, and barely getting by friend needs a PC. She's working for a horrible place and wants to try to start a small bookkeeping biz - she's a bookkeeper now. She's ordered a Lenovo workstation but it costs 1.5 months' rent for her, and she doesn't need all that power. She figured that she wants a good PC while she still has a wage, and she kind of got carried away after seeing by my Lenovo workstation.

(Mine is Xeon, 32 GB, double graphics cards, 3 SSDs in RAID, etc)

So I took the 9020 SFF and added 16 GB RAM for total 24 GB, installed a used Quadro P620 graphics card (can drive 4 monitors at 4K), put in a 1 TB SSD, and have a WiFi card on order. Total cost will be about $300.

I'll suggest she cancel her Lenovo order (delayed anyway), and take this little Dell. She'll have to buy monitors but they are cheap. I really think this will be all the PC she'll need for many years.

Now I'm having fun messing around with PCs and am fantasizing about building a bigger machine for myself.