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If all you're doing is internet browsing and watching tv/movies, then a prebuilt is all you need. trying to build that new out of custom components, even very cheap custom components, isn't really possible. and if you could do it, it wouldn't be any better than what you could get out of said prebuilts.

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2 minutes ago, Zyndo said:

If all you're doing is internet browsing and watching tv/movies, then a prebuilt is all you need. trying to build that new out of custom components, even very cheap custom components, isn't really possible. and if you could do it, it wouldn't be any better than what you could get out of said prebuilts.

what is a good prebuilt?

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for 220 bucks? If its just for personal viewing, get a tablet or something. Just head down to your local best buy or whatever you have and see what they have to offer for 220 and what you can get. I'm honestly not sure what is available for prebuilt mini PC's nowadays, I've never really looked at them. Or go to newegg or amazon or something, set in your price and look at computers. see what you can get for 220. at a glance I'm seeing mostly refurbished things, but refurbished isn't bad or anything.

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42 minutes ago, Zyndo said:

for 220 bucks? If its just for personal viewing, get a tablet or something. Just head down to your local best buy or whatever you have and see what they have to offer for 220 and what you can get. I'm honestly not sure what is available for prebuilt mini PC's nowadays, I've never really looked at them. Or go to newegg or amazon or something, set in your price and look at computers. see what you can get for 220. at a glance I'm seeing mostly refurbished things, but refurbished isn't bad or anything.

No a mini pc like the mac mini

 

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5 minutes ago, AlanAlan said:

No a mini pc

Yes. You can buy incredibly small PC's (some the size of a VHS cassette, or even smaller) on Amazon and Newegg. go to their computer prebuilt sections and just filter for mini PC or whatever form factor you want.

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http://pcpartpicker.com/list/BDFQVY

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883796001 plus some extra ram and storage would also work well.

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a Wii and PS2 as your only consoles.

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Asrock RX9070xt Steel Legends, Corsair RM750X, 500gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 3x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a Obsidian 750D airflow.
GF PC: (NightHawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb 860 evo, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

HP probook 445R G6 review

 

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