Our family has to be one of the computer-rich families I know of! We currently own 11 computers for the 5 of us! Three of the laptops don't work right anymore, and one of them is still at my house in TX (long story for another time). And, this doesn't include the laptop that TI provides for me to use for work!
My kids have had laptops, but the power adapters (actually, where they are attached to the mother board) seem to regularly break.
So, I saw some "bare bones" PCs for a pretty good price, and decided that we would get two of them for our youngest two kids to help put together, and call it part of "home schooling". Well, I placed the order for the kits (and two flat panel LCD monitors) on Friday, and by the following Friday, we had received the components, put them together, and installed Linux (Fedora 7) successfully! Even though both kids would prefer to be running some flavor of Microsoft Windows, they seem to be pretty happy with the things they can do on Linux! It really is a pretty good operating system, provided that someone in the house can act as "system administrator".
So, all three of our kids have now put together their own computer! And, I should note that we had quite a bit of fun in the process...
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