True enough. I can trade from my old freebie dell laptop if I have to. It's many years old and was the bottom of the line to begin with.
Probably too cheap... Anywhere from $25/month to $150/month. It costs roughly $80c/day to run a modest machine 24/7/365 so the lower end dual-core XP/W7 32-bit with 3gb RAM are a pretty good deal at $25-$30/month.