I used a 30 days evaluation CD, I was at Comp USA and looked at the price, $999.00. I do not have to buy OS's, one good thing about MS is thier policy of allowing folks to install software they use at work on thier home computers too. So I run Windows 2000 proffesional at work and at home. Windows 2000 is also a nice OS. NT was the first useable OS MS offered and I still run it on one old obsolite box that I can not upgrade RAM for. Windows 2000 is fine with me and I think I will hang with it for a while, I am not going to move to Linux or XP. I will investigate freeBSD, looking for a good OS for my Web Server, it runs fine on Windows 2000, but the OS uses to must RAM for a box deicated to a web server and nothing more.