An additional benefit to has been the fact that I can afford the use of higher quality printers and scanners due to not having to buy one for each computer. The network also allows me to use one Internet connection for all four computers via the ISDN router. Every home user or home office requires a basic set of equipment. If there are more than one computers to be used, then the basic network components are required. This area is the hardest to define in terms of hardware.
Computers change almost monthly.
My basic suggestion concerning computers has two parts. The first is to realize that you most likely will not have the fastest, largest, budget be dammed ideal computer for use at home. That home computer, may in fact, be a dog in terms of what is available in today s technology market. This brings me to the second suggestion, where I will use my favorite analogy about last year s snow skis. Remember that last year s computer like last year s skis are the worst products ever designed, which means that we have to have this year s model just to be able to keep the snide remarks about our hardware down.