Okay, I'll be getting my bonus here in about a month, should be fairly decent. I'm going to get a shotgun or two (probably a SxS and an O/U Make model TBD), a Garand from CMP and new computer. But, not necessarily in that order, per Mrs Scout.
The old computer caught a virus and is dead. Dead as in BIOS dead. (Heck it was a PeoplePC running Win 98, so it needed killin'.)
Anywho, we don't need nothing fancy or blazing fast. We're going to upgrade from Dial-up to DSL probably. Just something Mrs Scout (TOTAL NON-COMPUTER USER) can use to pay bills on-line and send e-mail to family and friends. So good security/firewall protection is a must. (That's how I think we lost the last computer, probably from an e-mail that she should not have opened. Yep, Mrs Socut would open and click on links in EVERY e-mail sent to her.)
We don't play games on-line or anything like that, just cruise the internet a little, send e-mail, We use Quicken, Turbo Tax, and MS Office for word processing and spreadsheets. Looking for something in the say $600 or less range.
Fire away !!!