On 11/15/05, Scot Jenkins <scotjenkins at gmail.com> wrote: > Before buying new, consider recycled hardware. Most people's needs > (email, web surfing, word processing, finances, etc.) don't require > bleeding edge hardware. You could find some very servicable PII or > PIII class systems that folks are "throwing out". For example, Win2k > runs respectibly well on an old PII-350Mhz w/256M RAM, and Linux (of > course) is blazingly fast. Blazingly fast if you don't pick a current version of KDE or Gnome.