I can't see any signivicant performance difference between my wife's 400MHz celeron E-Machine, my 266 pentium II MMX Gateway, and my sister's old 166 Mhz pentium system for net usage or office aplications. No software in common use that can use even a fraction of the power available. I will happily ride the trailing edge for now. Tom Nadeau Speed matters most to me.
Price is secondary.
I've finally learned my lesson re. I'm waiting for RAM prices to fall back to reasonable prices. Tom Strickland you can't go wrong with the Intel brand name. David Cole newest, fastest, biggest, and best. Colin Matlack look forward to the day when price gouging will be a thing of past.