Well, you are right on this.. except, I refuse to work on any box slower than 300Mhz because its just not worth paying my rates to fix a box like that, when as you have read all over this thread you can buy a very nice new PC for $500-600. You have to be ethically challenged to do that.. so, a perfectly wonderful PC bites the dust. I know I just retired a dual 1Ghz system a client was having problems with because it wasn't "worth" fixing. That is breathtaking but PIII systems are EOL
A scrounger can have alot of fun. Frankly, I bet the landfills are starting to see a bunch of 1Ghz systems. mmmm.. where are my rubber gloves.. :)