The prices were found on several Toronto area online computer stores and represent end-user pricing that was available at the time that this was published. If you can't find pricing such as what we have stated drop us a line and we'll tell you where we found them, however in no way will that indicate that we are recommending or advocating any particular retailer. While some believe this amount of memory is excessive for a value system, given the incredibly low cost of memory this upgrade will very quickly pay for itself in a business environment. The AMD Athlon Thunderbird processors are available at absurdly low prices and coupled with their extremely good performance they represent an unbeatable value. For a value system this is an excellent foundation.
Memory is cheap .
This has been upped from 128MB simply because the current price of memory makes it foolish to go with less. Indeed the price of memory is low that you should seriously consider 512MB reasonable even for a value system. The difference between the constant chattering of some other drives and the low volume nattering of the IBM Deskstar series is astounding. A hard drive that we are definitely keeping our eyes on though is the new ultra-quiet Seagate offerings. Any standard 52x CD-ROM drive is adequate.