Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

I like things ready out of the box.

Alienware Alpha Barebone Gaming PC
You can buy a used i7 version for $800 or buy used i5 version for $635 . It's as small as your palm yet pack a good punch (GTX 860M) . A Certain Dolphin user bought it and told us that it's pretty good
Plus an IPS LED Frameless monitor for $120
All you have to do is to buy a HDMI cable to connect the monitor to PC

In order of what I recommend from most to least:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6883230073 (Intel's Skylake 6th gen CPU, with an overclock-able board)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6883102076 (you can put an overclocked CPU in this one farther down the road if you really wanted to)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6883230058
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6883230031

Any suggestions for a computer good for school use AND emulator use?

You know what, just to make it easier, let me make myself clear:

-I need this for school use, and gaming second
-The emulators I plan to use are Dolphin, DraStic, PPSSPP, and possibly Citra & PCSX2
-An all-in-one would be ideal
-Price range is between $600-$1000

What do you mean by school? Power points and Microsoft word? Because they'll all run them well. But if you mean like computer modelling or audio/video stuff, then the top one that I listed since it has the strongest CPU to be used in multi-core rendering.

As for emulators, they rely on really fast CPU cores. Thus, once again the 6th Gen Intel pc wins.

All-in-ones overheat are are generally not good for gaming.

Then go add on a cheap monitor to the first one I had in the list, and tuck the tower under your desk (or behind the monitor)

Why not just buy a gaming laptop . AIO PC is not portable
Most AIO PC in that price range are garbage (either low end GPU or worthless integrated GPU)

A gaming laptop (a good one at least) would end up being over $1000

Thanks. I'm looking at some gaming laptops under $1000, so wish me good luck.

Sub $1000 gaming capable laptop is here :
http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6659-clev...-8071.html (i7 4710MQ + GTX 950M)
Only have to customize it and add "IC Diamond Thermal Compound" + "COPPER COOLING UPGRADE"
There is another better one
http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np7339-clev...-8073.html (i7 4710MQ + GTX 960M = Desktop GTX 750 TI)
The display is smaller though