And the regular Pentium product line is about as fast as it's going to get. This year, the workhorse seems to be the 200 MHz Pentium. I suppose they're right, but I'd rather wait 'til I don't have to pay quite so much extra to buy a slower machine. The biggest trick with buying hardware is that the speed of the processor is no longer the most important factor in determining the speed of the system. 16 M-bytes of memory is the absolute minimum for an effective Windows95 environment.
Monitors present an unusual problem.
On the other hand, you don't have to buy a brand new monitor with every new computer. Of course when the old monitor does go bad, do replace it with something larger. Watch out for vendors who advertise systems with just one, and then boost the price for the extra megabyte. Hard disks are just plain too big these days. It's supposed to be the Next Big Thing, but nobody's really using it yet.