Just a 47-year-old mom of 2 in Northern California. My kids are Monkey Monkey(MM) and Drama Llama (DL). I am married to Monkey Hubby (MH). Post from January:
MH ended up buying me a very small computer. He kept seeing sales in the $100 range. This is an incredible deal if you already have all the accessories. But I haven't had a desktop since I've been displaced by kids. So... $500 later. The motivation was not "minimalism" but I am LOVING it from that standpoint. The computer is about the size of the original roku? (Or how I recall the original roku to have been). It just hangs off the back of the monitor. & I told MH several times that I did not need speakers. He did not believe me, so he ended up getting me a monitor with built-in speakers. So it looks like I just have a monitor/keyboard/mouse. We got it set up in our bedroom, for now. Glad it is so compact, because I might want to move downstairs in the summer.
To be clear, we just put the computer in our bedroom. I just used MM's old desk.
In the end, I have surprisingly not needed to move downstairs. I recall that we *never* used the upstairs A/C until we had kids. Now I remember why. All the cool air (and heat in the winter) seems to float up our bedroom. So it's been okay.
I realized that I never showed any pictures of my tiny computer:
This is the computer, just hanging off the back of the monitor:
Computer Update
August 13th, 2017 at 11:53 pm
August 14th, 2017 at 01:02 am 1502668929
August 15th, 2017 at 02:48 am 1502761733
I personally do not believe in speakers either, although I do have a set to use when the kids are with me and we are watching something together. Otherwise, I use these very inexpensive earbuds (from Panasonic) that costed me like $14. The CRAZY thing is that they sound Amazingly good for what it is; actually better than headphones that costs hundreds more! Also, if I want to crank it up a bit, I won't bother the neighbors. Otherwise, there is no way of getting better sound from any speakers for that low amount of money.