[VinnyTex]

For less than half the price I paid for my old computer (which was top-of-the-line at the time), I got a 1.7GHz processer with 512MB of RAM and a 80Gig hard drive. Furthermore, it has a CD-RW drive, a DVD drive, six USB ports including two on the space-age keyboard, firewire ports all over the place and a network card built in. Oh yeah, and it has this optical mouse as well that doesn't need a mousepad. It took me maybe five minutes to learn how to burn a CD and I have no idea how I lived without the ability to burn my own CDs!

I've had this PC running for about a week now and it hasn't crashed once. Hasn't even shown a hint of crashing. This Windows XP is rock solid. In fact, I'm probably going to run out and get a copy of XP for my old computer as well.

I bought myself a new puter for Christmas. Dell wtih 2.0 GHz 512MB of RAM and a 80Gig hard drive and XP is the best windows operation system to date. I've been running this thing for 2 weeks and it still hasn't crashed. Even with 50 web sites open at once. Gotta love that 512 ram... Question? When do ya think the DVD writers are going to come down in price. COMP USA has em, but they're 600 bills a pop... DVD disk will hold 5.5 gigs of space and 5yrs ago that was considered a huge hard drive.

[Bush2000]

That's a sweet machine. I know the one you bought. I almost got one myself. ;-)

[SamAdams76]

CD/DVD-R/W drives will be standard in all new computers by this time next year. In the meantime, I'm happy just to be able to burn my own CDs! I imagine the price of a DVD-RW will drop under $200 by summertime. When you decide to buy, you can always replace your CD-RW as DVD-RW also writes to CDs.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Has anyone looking at some of the MP motherboards? With 50 windows open it might be nice to have two processors available to process !