OK, so first off, thanks for all your guys feedback on my prior posting about a young guy's interest in a computer gaming system. I passed along the info - not sure where/how far it went ... good info anyways.
on another front, the laptops i've purchased for myself/house I've replaced the spinning metal with SSD's. I've then given some of these spinning metals away.
Now, there's an interest to get a couple/few spinning metal drives to put into laptops for casual use for some other peoples ...