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To: Return to Sender who wrote (7953)1/5/2003 6:20:49 PM
From: w0z  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 95456
 
"Even though you can get a central processor that cheap I would go for the complete system"

I thought it was for a complete system!

"I upgraded a 300 MHZ, 256MB Pentium-II this week to a 2.0GHZ, 1GB P4 for $346 including shipping. I paid nearly $2,000 for the original PII."

I've seen complete systems with Pentium4-2.0GHz/256MB/20GB/XP for $500 but this sounded like an incredible deal! In retrospect, maybe he was referring to components only but the fact that RAM & shipping was included made me think it was a system. Thanks for the links anyway. Sounds like Microsoft has finally figured out how to make a stable system in XP after nearly 10 years of garbage!



To: Return to Sender who wrote (7953)1/5/2003 8:17:01 PM
From: scott_jiminez  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 95456
 
<<OT: I find XP is much more stable. A tremendous improvement...>

Similarly, OS10 is much more stable, especially Jaguar, and this is without any particular enhancements to browsers, email, etc. The UNIX foundation is a real boon to the entire system and is well worth the price of the upgrade as well.