Hot Like A Hot Car?
 

This is one of the major problems the status symbol PC faces. Most people don't love PCs as much as big diamond rings or fast cars or exclusive mansions, or even like small diamond rings or regular cars and houses. The average person finds his PC somewhere in between a useful tool and a necessary evil, not an intrinsic good.

http://overclockers.com/tips01118/

Speaks my mind ...... then again, if the status symbol of your PC is the only thing you have, you likely will do your best to doll it up.
The "average person" might be an adult or perhaps a parent rather than a "child"?

Oh Ed, may be you're a grand parent, like me ..... or unlike me, I still doll up my bike :)