I bought a used dell for my parents so that they could stay in touch with the kids through email and see pictures when we moved to California. It took me two months straight teaching them how to connect to the internet and how to log in to their email accounts. My father kept saying that it was too complicated but my kids kept encouraging him to keep at it.

The used dell with the used poweredge servers in it was not a big cost since I had gotten it online from a company that sells these kinds of things refurbished. I would have never been able to afford a new computer for them, and they did not need one that had all the bells and whistles.

I chose from the used poweredge servers for one that would be able to keep up with just the internet and occasionally a video or two. If the computer is too slow, then it may not be able to open the video and play it in real time.

The first set of emails we sent to my parents were replied to very quickly. I guess that they had been messing around with the used dell a little more everyday and my dad even has used it to order some things from online stores.