s3yang Wrote:1: Are you comfortable with buying parts and putting the computer together yourself?
2: In the $1700 budget, do you need to buy the OS and the monitor as well? Or just the base system?
1: Not really. If I had step-by-step instructions, sure. But I don't think I can do it on my own.
2: That's for *everything*: Hardware, software, all the way down to the mouse.