That was pretty much my reaction as well. I built a small system similar to this for my grandmother a couple years ago. If I recall I paid about $150 for the ba

That was pretty much my reaction as well. I built a small system similar to this for my grandmother a couple years ago. If I recall I paid about $150 for the base system, and another ~$150 for an SSD for it for a grand total of $300 plus a little extra for a keyboard/mouse and a USB DVD drive. Initially installed Ubuntu on it, but later swapped it out for Mint on account of Unity just getting way too weird. Basically you could do this yourself for right around the exact same price point if not a bit cheaper with the minor inconvenience of installing the OS yourself.