Simple productivity PCs are so cheap and easy to build these days it’s silly. Everything is on one integrated board, even wifi. Add HD or SSD and memory and you’re done and ready to install your OS. Drivers are rarely an issue, unless you’ve got a really old printer or scanner.
I got my 1st PC built by a place on Canal St in lower Manhattan that mostly sold E-junk. In 1990 it was $2k for a 286 with a mono monitor, a 20mb HD and a floppy. I had to spend another $200 for a math co-processor chip so I could run CAD. I had promised a client that I would do draftings of what I had designed for them, and I was damned if I was going to do it all by hand, so I learned CAD. I think I bought the next one and built the one after that.
