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Monday October 6, 2008
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Now this is a great idea: Joel Durham of our fellow PCMag.com Network site ExtremeTech, decided that instead of buying an updated PC for his family, he'd build one. Even better, he enlisted his 10-year-old son to help. (The perfect age to begin--or perhaps to complete?--the geekification process!)
Joel details the entire process, including all the components he rounded up and each step the father-son duo took to create their new PC. The story's instructive--and encouraging--not only for building systems with kids, but also for those of us who haven't quite worked up the courage to take a crack at this ourselves. Check out the story along with plenty of photos at ExtremeTech.
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October 7, 2008 4:00 PM
What a way to get kids into technology? Maybe more schools should start projects like this to fill their media centers; then kids can get hands on experience building and maintaining the computers they've assembled!
December 28, 2008 1:00 AM
My son was 10 when he build his first computer. He come up to me with my laptop and showed me every part he wanted and didn't even miss a single part. I ordered him the parts and went to find out how to build a computer online. I went to check on him after a few hours and found him updating his version of windows!
I asked him how he did it and he bored me with all the details.