Is this computer good enough?

A freind is lookin for a cheap computer for her young kids to play simple games on, educational mainly and maybe a graphic intense game or two. I just referred her to dell, who I don't care for too much but we wanted to make it easy. After she called to order the 2400, the salesman asked if she was using it for games, and after learning she was, told her games would not work on it and she would have to bump up a model.

She cannot afford to bump up and I figured this would be the best buy for her money. I mean I can play decent games on a lot less.

What do you think... below is the computer in question...




Dimension 2400 SeriesIntel® Celeron® Processor at 2.4GHz with 400MHz front side bus 1204

Operating System:Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition

Memory: FREE UPGRADE! 256MB Shared DDR SDRAM at 333MHz 256M3P

Hard Drive: 40GB ATA/100 Value Hard Drive 40V

Floppy Drive and Additional Storage Devices:No Floppy Drive

CD or DVD Driveual Drives: 48x CD-ROM Drive + FREE UPGRADE! 48x CD-RW Drive CDCDRP

Keyboard: Dell™ Quietkey® Keyboard

Mouse: Dell® 2-Button Scroll Mouse

Bundled Software: Productivity Pack including WordPerfect® and Money® COREL

Security Software: Norton Antivirus® 2003, 90-day introductory offer NAV2003

Monitor: 17 in (16.0 in v.i.s., .27dp)E773c Monitor

Video Card: Integrated Intel® 3D Extreme Graphics IV

Sound Card: Integrated Audio

All's good apart from the Intergrated audio and the Integrated Intel® 3D Extreme Graphics IV, that means it's onboard and usually not up to good standard like Creative Soundcards and nvidia/radeon Graphics cards.

And the no floppy drive....I don't think I could live without my floppy drive =/.

you could see if you could get a custom made one..probably be cheaper than dell as well.

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That's a decent PC, minus the onboard video. But, she could always get a video card later on and disable the onboard video. I don't have a floppy in my new PC.

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Yeah, I did that on mine so I can help her with that. My question is answered, thanks !