Computer

535 Watt 34 Amp power supply
Asus M3A78 Motherboard
AMD Phenom x4 9550 (2.2Ghz quad-core processor)
Half-height low-profile Kingston DDR2 (800Mhz) 2 gigabyte ram
AVF case
XFX Nvdia 9400GT PCI-E video card (550Mhz core, 512 megabytes ram)
Seagate SATA 80 gigabyte harddrive
Samsung DVDRW (taken from a computer here that doesn't work)

The dvdrw needs to be replaced at some point. For now, however, it works for what I want.

I have other harddrives, but I really don't NEED more space than 80gig for the main drive.
For now, to keep the data on those drives safe, I am not connecting the other drives unless I want to use them. I couldn't get a removable drive bay when I bought parts, so I'll pick one up later. That will make it a lot easier to swap drives.

I am using the stock cooling for the CPU and video card. Later I will change these to better cooling.

The case is an ugly red color, but it was cheaper, wider, and has a 120mm fan in the front for more air flow.

Later, also, we will need to buy a monitor of our own. I'll probably go with a Samsung LCD, 21 inches or so, I want a wide-screen.

This computer runs great. :-)

Today we went out and bought a printer. We got a Samsung clp-315.

I will not buy an inkjet printer. The reason for this is pretty simple really. When you do not print frequently, the ink in the inkjet will dry out, at that point the printer is useless until you run a bunch of maintenance (which uses up a ink fast). You end up wasting ink and paper doing maintenance, as well as a lot of time, in order to print 1 freaking page! After you get to a point where you can print again there's the price to consider. Inkjet printers are cheap. Ink for inkjet printers is expensive!

So, I use laser printers. They cost more to buy. Yes. But they print faster, require much less maintenance, print on demand without hassles, cost about 75% less, do not bleed ink and have a much higher print-per-cartridge ratio.

Sit down and do the math and you'll see that that expensive laser printer actually costs much much less than the "cheap" inkjet printer.

I'll stick to laser. Thanks very much!