My grandpa needs a web browsing pc and I'm not sure what is enough.

[Middcore]

10 hours ago, dizmo said:

Why are we assuming that we know what his grandfather would want? My dad is a grandfather, he's bought pretty much everything PC related used. He enjoys it. Talk about knowing your audience...

 

If OP's grandfather had the knowledge to buy hardware himself, he wouldn't need his grandson to ask randos on the internet for him.

 

OP, get him a Chromebook. Or if he's too used to Windows get him some refurbished basic office PC. He doesn't need a dang 960 or any kind of gamer hardware, even if it's old. For God's sake don't try to put him on Linux. 

 

 

 

 

[SteveGrabowski0]

On 4/15/2021 at 10:46 AM, SignatureSigner said:

Raspberry pi 4 8gb of ram and runs chrome/youtube fine

Pornhub though?

[Director Bai]

On 4/15/2021 at 11:44 PM, PlayingSomeSmite said:

My grandpa needs a pc for web browsing and I have no idea what kind of hardware you need to run chrome smoothly. The most demanding task he's propably going to do is watching 1080p videos from youtube. I found an used pc listing from my country's equivalent of ebay. It has i5-2500k, gtx960 and 8gb ddr4 and it costs couple of hundred of bucks, that should be plenty right? 

I made a web browsing pc for one of my relatives by using a Pentium G2030.

CPU only costs me only 7yuan(1$) from Taobao.

210 yuan (35$) for a empty Lenovo ThinkCenter with H61 motherboard without CPU,RAM and hard drive. From Xianyu,which is Chinese ebay.

160 yuan (25$) for a SATA3 256GB SSD by Gloway from Taobao, which is a brand for the made in China NAND and DRAM.

100 yuan (15$) for a 8GB DDR3 1333 by ADATA from Taobao.

20 yuan (3$) for a Intel 5100 WIFI card with PCIEx1 adapter. From Taobao.

Total cost 500 yuan (70$).

 

 

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Laptops and Pre-Built Systems

[MWR Tech- Samuel]

On 4/15/2021 at 11:46 PM, SignatureSigner said:

Raspberry pi 4 8gb of ram and runs chrome/youtube fine

If it has built in WiFi (My RPi 2 models don't), it should be good enough, but otherwise, any old laptop or desktop runs well on a Linux distro, Zorin OS has quite a few apps. If, however, you end up buying a new PC, I suggest you avoid the Surface models. They're way slower than they claim to be (the SP6 is not even 2GHz), poor build quality, and have WiFi crashes at least every ten minutes. A HP is probably the best bet for a new computer.
In short, RPi 4 will run most functions well (except full Windows 10, but it's too expensive to buy anyway), as long as the WiFi adaptor is built-in, because the USB ports have been known to crash (or so I've heard), otherwise any computer should run these functions fine, provided that if they are a laptop, the battery functions, and generally if it has 4GB of RAM and at least 2.2GHz on the processor, and if not, put Linux on it, it'll make it faster.

[MWR Tech- Samuel]

On 4/15/2021 at 11:44 PM, PlayingSomeSmite said:

My grandpa needs a pc for web browsing and I have no idea what kind of hardware you need to run chrome smoothly. The most demanding task he's propably going to do is watching 1080p videos from youtube. I found an used pc listing from my country's equivalent of ebay. It has i5-2500k, gtx960 and 8gb ddr4 and it costs couple of hundred of bucks, that should be plenty right? 

Being incredibly cautious, I wouldn't trust a used PC for sale online to be as good as it claims to be, so I'd recommend just installing Linux on an old desktop. 4GB of RAM and a 2.4GHz processor runs pretty much everything smoothly, and Zorin OS (a Linux distro) actually has quite a few apps for sale, including Skype. Otherwise, get a cheap HP. They're excellent computers, and they can handle pretty much anything you throw at them. I'm using an old ProDesk running Zorin for this, it has 3.2GHz, and runs great, despite its age.

[MWR Tech- Samuel]

On 4/16/2021 at 11:53 PM, Middcore said:

 

If OP's grandfather had the knowledge to buy hardware himself, he wouldn't need his grandson to ask randos on the internet for him.

 

OP, get him a Chromebook. Or if he's too used to Windows get him some refurbished basic office PC. He doesn't need a dang 960 or any kind of gamer hardware, even if it's old. For God's sake don't try to put him on Linux. 

 

 

 

 

Zorin OS is OK, I use it for home purposes, and it has a lot of apps

[dizmo]

On 4/16/2021 at 5:23 AM, Dedayog said:

Your dad has a grandchild old enough to buy a PC for him?  I guess you're the outlier that has extremely fertile members and breeds early, and gramps is what?  45?  Plus he's buying them himself, not having his grandson do it so that means this grandfather isn't "in the know" like yours.  Plus he explicitly states watching Youtube at 1080p is the most intensive activity,

 

Don't go using your un-normal circumstance as the one off argument.  I'm old enough to know quite a few actual grandparents in the range of what's talked about here given the parameters we can infer.  I'd say they just want a web browsing machine, which is precisely what is being asked.

 

If you want to argue, we can take it to PM's.  If you want to think logically and apply critical thinking to the question asked, let's do that.

My dad's almost 70. So yes, he has a grandchild old enough to buy a PC for him.

The fact he's not in the know doesn't mean that he wouldn't like a good deal. Lots of people are like that. It's not a less-than-normal situation. I've sold tens of thousands worth of used computer components to people that are later on in their years.

 

Don't be an arrogant prick thinking you know everything