You can build your own compact and energy efficient PC. All you need is the various laptop parts and put them together. Sounds easy? This article will tell you how to do this.
Such a shared PC needn't be expensive to build: it doesn't have to run games, so can rely on the motherboard's integrated graphics chip. You might have been using an old PC for this task for years (or even an old laptop), but now is the ideal time to replace it with a new PC and invest in a larger, better-quality monitor.
Unless you plan to connect the PC to a corporate network, you can use Windows 7 Home Premium rather than the more robust Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate editions. If the computer is to be used in an office environment that would connect to a domain name server, you'll probably want Windows 7 Professional, which costs roughly 40 more than Home Premium. For storage, there's a pair of laptop-class devices. One is a Western Digital Scorpio Black 750GB, 7,200rpm hard drive. You could swap this for a 120GB solid-state drive, but that would push the cost even higher and limit the amount of space for large files such as videos. The second is a Samsung slot-loading rewritable-DVD drive. The slot-load feature is nice to have in a crowded, small-desk environment. Again, both components use less power than their desktop equivalents.
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