[Gllug] (OT) Early Christmas

[Don Williams]

Hi there Glluggers, after a summer of installing Debian a few times and 
a few other distros, all with enjoyment and a savage rattling of my aged 
brain cells, my SWMBO has said "go choose" a new bit of desktop kit. 
Early Crimbo! Many times in the past this forum has guided me well - so 
how about now?
     I want: a reasonably well-built bit of kit, c£350-550,
with a ginormous hard drive making it easy (for me) to have a couple of 
distros up and running, but arriving with Debian 5 or the current Ubuntu 
ready installed;
with reliable CD and DVD read/write drive;
with good up-to-date graphics - NOT for gaming (fingers too old'ncrabby 
for that) but much playing with Gimp and Scribus and scanning and 
photographs, all to appear on a nice large screen (20-inch?);
with (hopefully) a working Gnash;
with over five USB ports (for scanner, printer, zip drive, skype 'phone 
et al);
and most seriously, any recommendations/criticisms from your 
so-much-younger brain cells (bow, scrape, scrape).
     I have looked at HP and was pretty well put off by its site's 
insistence on implementing Flash, saw OpenForEveryone (and its 8.10.2 
Desktop PC for £315 - any reportage/experience?) and then thought oooh 
yeah, the Glluggers! So, this request ...
     If I offend by this screed, first my apologies and second, feel 
free to suggest I depart in short jerky movements.
     Respectfully, Don Williams
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