the whole family was thrilled with the new equipment.-penny was already planning to collect recipes to put in the computer.-she also wanted to get a complete list of names and addresses in there for handy reference.-ed and johnny were thinking of having professional-looking price quotes , invoices , materials lists and advertising flyers for their cabinet-making business.-chrissy had wanted for some time to start work on a family tree and the computer would be perfect for that.- that might leave some time for the twins to enjoy it , aunt winnie laughed.-its a good thing i ordered an eighty kilobyte hard drive with five hundred twelve megabytes of memory.-it also has a forty-eight-x cd burner/dvd combo.-i think the dell computers are the best with the intel pentium processor , too.-i like the flat panel stereo monitor , also.-they make thirty-inch screens but i thought the twenty-inch would be fine for here.-it takes up a lot less space on your desktop.-it has a tailless optic mouse that doesnt require a mouse pad.-in order to do the things youve mentioned , youll probably need some more software programs.-the xp windows operating system should be compatible with all those things that you wanted to do.-dont forget all the sites on the internet that will help the kids with their schoolwork , if they do get a chance to use it .