Cheapest hardware ever

I've just bought my cheapest complete PC hardware ever for just under £130. Ebuyer are offering the Acer Aspire XC-603 without operating system for just £129.99 including free postage. This neat small form factor PC has an Intel latest technology, low-power Quad core Celeron J1900 running at 2GHz nominally and 2.4GHz in turbo mode. Plus 4Gb DDR3 memory, 500Gb hard disk drive, DVD writer, card reader, and four USB 2 and one USB 3 port. All assembled in one very nice looking case with a brushed aluminium effect front panel. It runs very quietly and come with a years warranty too.

Follow the instructions to re-flash the BIOS and then simply load Windows 7 Home Premium for a neat PC that costs less than £200. Or load Windows 8.1 directly if you are feeling adventurous. Either way you end up with a responsive computer which can easily handle Internet web surfing and emails, word processing and digital photo editing for home or office use. The quad core Celeron if fine for these tasks and clicking on a desktop icon always opens a new window quickly. You can expand the memory for the future to 8Gb if needed. Substituting or adding a SSD would also increase performance.

Well done Acer! In these days of smartphones and tablets it is good to see the desktop computer hitting back.