James.

Not sure if this would be seen in the stream, but I figured I'd ask it anyway. I was wondering, but do you feel that there is a market for Tenkeyless keyboards like the Quickfire TK? I love mine, but I haven't seen any other manufacturers make similar keyboard designs, instead sticking with the more traditional tenkeyless style.

I found some specs for the tablets, and some more pictures over on this liliputung article: http://liliputing.com/2014/09/hp-stream-7-stream-8-tablets-coming-november-100.html According to the Articles, the tablets will have Atom Z3735G processors, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage (however the video in the article states that they will have 32GB of storage, then changes to 16 again, so I'm really not sure.) Edit: Endgadget is reporting that the tablets will have 32GB of storage with micro-SD expansion slots, and 1280x800 displays with what is described as wide viewing angles. I have some mixed feelings about this. While I love the idea of cheap windows tablets, and I'd love to pick one of these up to test it against my Venue 8 pro, there are some really limiting flaws to these tablets. While the processor, an almost identical processor to current Bay Trail tablets, and screen look good, the RAM and low amount of storage really hinder these in my opinion. The RAM just meets the requirements for windows 8, and based on my experiences with a Venue 8 Pro, just isn't enough for normal use unless HP uses some sort of black magic to make these more memory efficient. As a reference, the venue 8 pro sitting in front of me is using about 800MB just sitting at the desktop, and that is with pretty much just running drivers and the various windows services. I don't see this being changed without a decent price hike though, seeing as you would have to change the processor in order to use more ram since the Z3735G only supports 1GB. The second thing that concerns me about these tablets is the low amount of storage. While I understand that you can use Windows on 16GB of storage, there really isn't enough room there to install apps from the windows store, and store media, as well as any normal programs which might be installed on the computer. The video in the above article made it look like there was a little under a half of the storage remaining after installing windows. with that, and assuming that they do actually have 16GB of storage, then lets say there is 7GB left after windows. Installing office brings that down to 5GB, and that's really just nothing in terms of usable storage. While this could be remedied by including a SD or Micro SD card slot, none seems to be available, so these are stuck with the small amount of storage they have. With 32GB of storage, and a micro SD card slot, this worry is gone, but I still am worried about the low amount of RAM. One last weird design choice for me though is the fact that the tablets won't have front facing cameras, but will have rear facing ones. Font facing cameras would be useful for Skype, but I can't really see anyone using these as cameras... Anyways, here's the video from the article I referenced a couple of times: http://youtu.be/CSvd48xufjs EDIT : Didn't notice this until after posting but it seems as though endgadget is reporting in this article (http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/29/hp-stream-laptops-tablets/) that the tablets will have 32GB of storage, with Micro SD cards slots for expanded storage. It also has some specs for the Laptops as well. They will have Celeron N2840 processors, 2GB or ram, and have up to 8.5 hours of battery life.

There is only a $5 difference, and I can get the copy of windows 8 from Ncix, which then means that I can get free shipping on the case, and save some money from that. Otherwise I would have gotten windows 7.

If it was my own computer, I'd take the chance. However, since I am building this for my cousin, I really don't want to deal with having the key turn out to be a bad key later on, if that ever happened.

Even though they mght fit on the ssd, buying a windows 8 OEM key means that I dont have enough money for a new hard drive, let alone a new ssd. Thanks fo the suggetion though.

From what he said, mainly just Sarcraft 2 and Kerbal Space Program.

I wish I could, but at the budget I have, neither of those would work without having to skip upgrading the GPU. Besides, I don't really think 120/128gb ( the biggest size that would barely fit the budget) would be enough storage for the computer once you start installing games. As for the n200, buying that would mean that I would have to purchase a matx motherboard, which would cut even more into the budget.

So, I made some slight changes in order to fit in a copy of windows 8.1. Basically the major change is that I'm swapping out the 1TB hard drive to a 500gb that i have lying around, and that the ram was changed to one that I can get from Ncix, so that I can save on shipping. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00) Motherboard: Asus M5A97 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (Purchased For $0.00) Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($79.96 @ DirectCanada) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00) Case: BitFenix Merc Beta (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($19.99 @ NCIX) Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Essential 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($99.79 @ DirectCanada) Total: $199.74 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-08 14:50 EDT-0400 Additionally I saw a 7870 for sale in the Classifieds for $120 CAD + shipping that I'll probably try and buy. My only worry with that though is that my PSU might not be powerful enough for it. It should theoretically work, but I just wanted other people's opinions.

They are the parts I already own. I wasn't sure if I put the actual price in that it would change the total, so I just set them to 0.

So, a little while ago I was asked by my aunt on what she should get my cousin as a computer for him to play games on, mainly Kerbal Space Program, and StarCraft 2. I had asked her what she would like to spend, and she told me $400. She was fine with me using some of my old components to build it, ant so this is what I have so far: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00) Motherboard: Asus M5A97 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (Purchased For $0.00) Memory: Kingston Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($79.99 @ Memory Express) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($57.99 @ Canada Computers) Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card (Purchased For $0.00) Case: BitFenix Merc Beta (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($19.99 @ NCIX) Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Essential 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00) Total: $157.97 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-08 13:06 EDT-0400 (Made some changes to fit a windows key into the price.) With this I still have round $150 still to spend, but I'm not sure where exactly it should be spent. It wouldn't hurt to upgrade the CPU or GPU, but I'm not quite sure what needs it more. Also, one other thing, but I was wondering if anyone knows if the Windows 8 keys on sale at g2a are actual valid keys? Buying an oem copy of windows would really put a dent in the budget, and so I woud prefer if I could avoid it. Any help is appreciated. Edit: Made a revised build. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00) Motherboard: Asus M5A97 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (Purchased For $0.00) Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($79.96 @ DirectCanada) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00) Case: BitFenix Merc Beta (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($19.99 @ NCIX) Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Essential 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($99.79 @ DirectCanada) Total: $199.74 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-08 14:50 EDT-0400 A graphics card is not included in the build, however I am loking to purchase the 7870 for sale in the classifieds.

If you price match it at Memory express, the price can be brought down to $455.

Update 12: We Have Power. With the power button mounting completed, its now time to work on the power cable itself. To start off, this is the cable itself. And as can be seen, its a little bit short. So, I have to make this a bit longer. In order to do this, I first cut that cable in half. Also, these cables are really, really really small and a pain to work with. Anyways, I then started to solder longer wires on to each side of the connector. However I did not have enough hands to do this, so I had to find another way to hold the wire. And that works. From here I then covered the ends with heat shrink in order to both make everything look better, as well as stopping each different wire from contacting the others. While the soldering may not have been the best, as seen below, considering the size of the wire I am trying to extend I do not feel as though it is that bad. The wire itself did not turn out that bad either. Here's another picture with everything attached. The wire is massively over sized now for what it needs to be, but it still works. Now there is one last thing to test, and that is if it still powers up. And yes, yes it does.

I decided on that myself afterwards. Its something that wouldn't realistically look good, and its something that would never be seen anyways so its not really worth the trouble.

I'd say Original because you don't see it as much, but either would be interesting. Update 11: Mounting Switches So, not much has happened since the last update but I did manage to take a fair amount of pictures of the power button mounting, so why not post it? To start off I figured I would show off the mounting bracket. This took forever to make, but it didn't look too bad in the end. In addition to that I also had to drill another hole in the PlayStation. At this point I don't really want to have to take the rest of the parts, so I kinda just screwed through the plastic and then filed down the hole... Probably not the best way to do it, but it worked, as seen below. After this I had test attached the power button, in order to figure out where I wanted it to go. However it turned out that I had drilled the mounting hole for the power button to be too high, and so had to remove some plastic from the case in order to make the button fit, as well as having to sand down the PlayStation's button itself. It did fit in the end though. Now I just have to do the wiring for it. One last thing, I was wondering if anyone thinks that I should sleeve these wires? They would never actually be seen but I found some rope that fit the wires I was going to use, and figured it would make for decent practice.

Thanks!