My mother's old computer was a relic and finally died so I purchased this for her. She only uses a computer for basic things like reading email, making Word docs and web surfing so she didn't need a computer with a ton of power. This thing was perfect.I purchased the memory, hard-drive and OS separately and easily put it all together. Brought it to her house in a book-bag and since this has a VGA port (also has HDMI) was able to hook it up to her old monitor. She was stunned this tiny thing had 10x the power of her old computer.Total cost of putting it all together was a little less than $250. I probably could have found a refurbished computer for a little more than that, but those things are a crap shoot as far as what you might end up with. This little thing is brand new and she loves it.