Only if it was just hers . I read stories all the time where the ex steals the dog in either case . It ' s not fair <| sep |> This is literally asked every day . Use the search function <| sep |> 1 You are fine using the iGPU included with the i 5 , unless he needs really high resolution output . 2 That motherboard has 4 USB ports on the back you can plug stuff into , as well as 2 more on the front of the case . 3 Thermal paste comes preinstalled on the cooler bundled with that CPU 4 It really depends on the use case . If your dad is prone to having 100 tabs open at a time , stick with 16 GB . If not you will get by easily with 8 GB . Memory isn ' t very expensive so you might as well spend the $ 30 now and avoid the headache finding the same kit a few years down the road . Other than that , the build looks solid . I might look into getting a little bit bigger SSD if you think your dad will use it . I don ' t know your dad so a lot of this are big if ' s . I got an SSD recently and the difference is night and day . Boots in less that 10 seconds and once you can see something on the desktop , you can open it . Cheers buddyEDIT I ' d drop the disk drive , unless he likes burning his music to CD