In addition to all the other stuff I get in my email, I get newsletters from PC Mag. I saw the headline for an article that caught my eye called, "
How to Build a Kid's Desktop PC." Having a reasonable cost seemed to be one point of the article, but with a total of about $900 that didn't seem much like a computer I'd build for my kids. Other than a laptop that I bought a few years ago, I haven't paid that much for a computer in over 10 years. If they had suggested some parts that came up under $400, it might have been an article worth saving. Actually, my wife saw a brand new laptop for under $300 in the sales paper. Maybe our house is a little out of the ordinary, since we have more than one PC in use many times anyway, but I think that the kids should be just fine with secondhand PCs.