Well , actually , most items haven ' t jumped up in price here , electronics and games have though . <| sep |> LBX sounds right up your alley . Basically the same thing . <| sep |> Do you guys have cyber Monday ? Net deals can be just as good . With no lines . <| sep |> Optical drives haven ' t been required for a long time now , so no worries there . The easiest way will be to set up a USB drive . You ' ll need an existing computer for this , as well as a USB drive . How you set it up will depend on the operating system you ' re doing as well as whether its legitimate . There ARE ways around paying for an operating system , just like any software , but none I could recommend here The install differs slightly based on your motherboard . Essentially , you plug the USB drive in , boot the machine . Most of the time it will just boot to the USB drive on its own , in which case you follow the prompts and you ' re done . If it doesn ' t boot to USB on its own , that ' s where instructions start differing based on your motherboard , but usually there ' s a key you can hit to tell it what device you want it to load and you pick USB .