I don't know much about computers. I use them mostly for emailing, shopping, downloading pics off of my digital camera and burning the on dvd's, and downloading some songs. My oldest daughter uses them for school papers, downloading music, chatting, and burning cd's, my 2nd daughter downloads music, burns cd's, and plays games and webkins, my youngest daughter does webkins and some kind of barbie innernet toy, and my husband mostly surfs and plays solitaire. I don't want an expensive computer, but I do want one that would work for all of us. The las 3 we had just quite...took forever to get on, shut off in the middle of using, all kinds of stuff. Any suggestions on a brand, what all we need to have on it, and what we're doing wrong to all of the "dead ones" we have????