[MarkL]

Anyway, I was wrong, the Dell apparently does ship with an el-cheapo monitor. OTOH, to get the Dell up to the likely feature set of the Mac would probably cost as much as that monitor. Updgrading XP Home Edition to something a bit closer to the Mac OS's abilities (XP Pro) would almost buy you a new monitor in itself.

Something else to read carefully is the statement of warranty. On the really low priced Dells, if you look carefully, you'll see a 1 year tech support warranty (for telephone support only), and you get a 90 day warranty on the hardware. You can upgrade the warranty, but it will cost extra. This is only on the Dimension line.

Mark

[general_re]

That's new. Anyway, "upgrading" to a one year warranty is $17, which probably won't break the bank for people concerned about such things.