Final loadout on Mom's new PC for anyone who's interested: AMD 2nd gen A8 APU (CPU+GPU) on a lower end AsRock board. I sacrificed a second pair of RAM slots and HDMI-out to get a combo deal and keep costs down, and because they applied more to speculative future uses than how my mom actually uses her PC now. Also, I could always throw in a discrete GPU or tuner card for HDMI later. I went with a different case from the same manufacturer, and found a lot of positive reviews of their included PSUs so I'll just roll with that. RAM will be 8GB of 1600 speed with average latencies--about the same as what I have in my own machine. I'm still hoping to get a good deal on a 120ish GB SSD, but I missed Newegg's $50 (and then $65) deal on a Kingston HyperX by minutes, and TigerDirect's $60 deal on the same drive by an hour or two. I did score a 240GB HyperX for my own system, so I may just hand down my current 500GB HDD system drive. The whole near-instant-boot thing sure does add some wow-factor, though :/

I'm thinking I'll bring home the 8-yr-old P4 system to set up as a Linux box, which I'm presently lacking.