Clarence-
I moved from a Mac to a windows machine several months ago. It was not an easy transition. I ended up going with a Micron. I'm happy with the hardware, have changed a couple of things, no problems upgrading. You don't need a 300mhz machine to trade with, I've heard of many people using 200mhz Pentiums to run Realtick. Mine is a 266 Pent II, more than adequate. It was important to me to have tech support, so I called them and asked questions before my purchase, to see how well I was treated, and how quickly they answered the phone. They passed the test. Win95 was not too stable, so I recently switched to NT, and all is (relatively) well.
If you are comfortable with building your own and configuring the software, go for it. I'm pretty computer savvy, had Macs from 1984, but I was in shock for quite a while when I switched to a PC. They are not the most intuitive when it comes to the interface, even if it is a pretty good rip-off of the Mac desktop. Make your transition as easy as possible, it will still be a bit of a rough ride, if it mirrors at all my experience.
-ojai
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