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Keep in mind that you get what you pay for - buy a cheap PC box with cheap parts and pay the price (part failure) later.

If you absolutely have to have windows, buy the best make of PC in your price range. Do not skimp. If you have to skimp, drop down a model or two; just buy the best.

Else you could pay about the same for the same bells and whistles with a Mac which includes the best parts inside (same parts as the best PC you might get) and run any other OS: all flavors/versions of Windows and Linux - limited only by the size of your HD; you cannot do that on any PC without a lot of tech tinkering.

Plus no need to Norton or PCmatic or any of that expensive antivirus, anti-malware, etc stuff.

Elderly types have no problem with running a Mac unlike a PC.

Then there is the iPad Pro if you really like light, and powerful. As the commercial says, “What’s a PC?”