taking $1000 *as that was the price of that last laptop* as a budget I would build:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hJMZ3F
if you don't need any other peripherals like a screen, mouse, keyboard, controller and speakers
If you do need those:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YDw6Z8
Both will do everything you ever wanted from it, plus, if you do get into PC gaming/Video&Photo editing/3d modeling/streaming it is also a very solid machine. It is needless to say that the "basic" computer stuff like browsing/youtube, word processing, spreadsheets. e-mail can be done on even a potato...
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hJMZ3F
if you don't need any other peripherals like a screen, mouse, keyboard, controller and speakers
If you do need those:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YDw6Z8
Both will do everything you ever wanted from it, plus, if you do get into PC gaming/Video&Photo editing/3d modeling/streaming it is also a very solid machine. It is needless to say that the "basic" computer stuff like browsing/youtube, word processing, spreadsheets. e-mail can be done on even a potato...
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