A friend of mine was over at the house the other day. His son makes motocross videos for a living and he was showing my 10 year old son one of them on his computer. Later he commented that my son's computer was very slow, which it is. It's still running the video card embedded on the motherboard with almost no video ram, 1.8 mhz AMD with 512 ram.
He said he has an extra computer laying around and he'd bring it by one of the days. I didn't think anything of it buy he just did.
It's a 2.2gig Intel dual processor, 2 gigs of ram, 512 ram video card, huge hard drive, fresh install of XP, all the good stuff.
This thing is way better than my computer. I felt bad and told him I couldn't take it for free, so he said OK, howz about $20? It's one of those with a clear plastic side on the case with all the different colored neon lights and stuff that flash like a light show. I don't care for that but my son thinks that is soooo coool.
I gave him $20 and told my son "happy birthday" (his birthday is next week).
Now both my son and daughter have better computers than I do.