Computer for parents

[Del Lardo]

Parents need a new computer as the one I built for them 6 years ago is finally dying a death. I can't be arsed to build or support computers any more so it needs to be a retail model (Dell, HP, etc) and they expect it to last ~5 years so are not afraid of spending a decent amount of money. There is no real budget but they would go to £1000 with no monitor though obviously the cheaper the better. I have suggested a Mac but they are not interested and will not be convinced.

They use it for normal internet stuff and photo editing, storage and while anything modern is going to be faster than their P4 1.8 I think it's worth making sure it packs some punch for future proofness, only requirements is for 1TB of HDD space. I was wondering if a SSD as a primary disk would be a good idea but none of the retail stuff I've seen seems to have it.

Finally they would prefer to buy it with XP and then upgrade to Windows 7 when it is released.



Ideas?