Processing speed and hard drives are growing at such an enormous rate, the best thing to do is to buy a year old used laptop computer at some computer repair store....that has been wiped clean/windows 7 or 8 reloaded, and has everything you could ever need power wise. 150-200 american greenbacks.....tops. It won't last 5 years anyway, you will get a virus or something will happen like you lose a big bet and throw it ##)