What really matters to me is what makes the applications I use run better. Processing speed of the CPU, in and of itself, means relatively little. That allows the more data to get to the processor to be processed. I hear that what most people will have are machines that can clock 800, but there is not enough data through-put to justify anything more than 300. 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.