Computer Purchase Case Study

Assessment
My family has outgrown our old computer system. The last one we purchased was in 1996. It was a Packard-Bell system with a Pentium I, 166 kHz processor. At that time our kids were 10 and 5 and my wife was a complete novice on the computer. When we purchased the Packard-Bell, it was state-of-the-art. I remember the salesman at Best Buy touting the benefits of MMX technology (something I had never heard of). The system came with speakers, sound and video cards, modem, 15-inch monitor, a mouse, a large software bundle, which included Windows 95, and a 1 GB hard drive. …