[SGVLUG] Shopping for computer for father-in-law...

[Dan Kegel]

Goal: reasonably future-proof system for under $500 without monitor.

There are plenty of crappy expensive systems out there
(e.g. Celerons, Pentiums, A8's, ...).  I'm looking for an
i3 or i5 that's a little future-proof.

I'd consider a Chromebox, though they don't have i3 or i5 versions yet
as far as I can tell.

http://www.logicbuy.com/categorydeals/computers/desktops seems like
it points to a few good deals (e.g. at the moment it points
out that you can get a Dell Inspiron 620 MT with an i5-2320,
6GB RAM, and 1TB hard drive for $499... but Dell's own
site kinds of finds that deal for you, too.

http://www.logicbuy.com/categorydeals/computers/desktops points
to an i7 for $600 (a bit over his budget).

Looks like Dell pushes the i3-2120 and the i5-2320;
the former is a 2 core, the latter has twice the cores as well
as twice the L1, L2, and L3 cache, and is about 1.5 times the
throughput on some benchmarks.

Any reason to not just point him at the cheapest i5 dell?