Excellent. I see you are not surprised at all by what you can build for $600!
How about this one...Micronics C300 motherboard and a Celeron 400 plus
64 meg of RAM for under $200, add a $100 HD, $30 CD ROM, and another $70 for the case keyboard, soundcard and floppy and your still only at $400.
While you're at it, why not add a video card, speakers, a monitor, an OS and some office software and see what your total comes to after shipping. You could even "pay" yourself a small rate of $10 per hour of setup. For me, it's fun to build a PC, and I've done it many times. But the value available through a Dell or a Gateway is hard to beat. I just bought my second PC (my first one, a 486 DX-50 back in 1992, I upgraded along the way to a P166), and together with an @Home connection it provides an excellent computing experience. It's a Dell PIII-500 system, and I would not expect a $1,200 system to come close to this.
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