I don't want to emulate XP.
Human Revolution is brilliant. That is all.
So is this better than this? (To be honest, the lack of a gap between the esc and F1, F4 and F5, F8 and F9, F12 and insert, and between the "Main keyboard" and 10-key kind of puts me off.. I'm so used to it on this computer... But I could get used to it, I think... I'd honestly rather keep this one though. But if the monitor's going bad, neither he nor I are up for fixing it anytime soon.)
I'm also a bit worried about getting something that can't do the things this one can. Because yeah, I kind of need whatever I get to be at least as good as this one.
edit: Like playing the SH games without lag (with or without FRAPS running). And developing Dead City.
Yeah... both of those are pretty crap, to be honest. The clock speed on the C50 is only 1000 MHz, according to Google, and the Celeron is single core. Both are integrated video...
Is the computer your using now a lappy or desktop?
I just think that if he's willing to cough up the $25-$150 extra for the HP one, he may as well get a better Acer, anyways. Like this one, perhaps, though it doesn't have any reviews yet and as such, may have overheating issues or something else.