Lev you still looking for a computer?

Staples has these with "holiday 2005 rebates" available. Not the greatest, but if you wipe the drive ofmost of the Compaq games and software, install firefox, AVG antivirus and NO you do not want AOL...

# The Presario SR1610NX offers: AMD Sempron processor 3200+ operating at 1.80GHz
# 256KB L2 cache
# 1600MHz frontside bus
# 256MB of PC3200 DDR SDRAM, upgradeable to 4GB
# 80GB 7200-rpm Ultra DMA hard drive
# DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive (16x/48x32x48x max. speeds)
# Front-panel 9-in-1 memory card reader
# 10/100Base-T Ethernet interface
# 56K V.90 modem
# 7 USB 2.0 ports (3 front, 4 back)
# 2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports (1 front, 1 back)
# Integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics with 128MB shared video memory
# Integrated 6-channel audio
# Compaq scroll mouse
# Compaq keyboard

$329 after rebates. $100 more doubles the memory, hard drive and still not a great box.....

but affordable.

 

Hey Bored......thanks! I'm touched you thought of me, that's sweet

Actually I bought a HP about 3 weeks ago - I guess you missed my posting, but here is the spec again for you

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...t&productCategoryId=cat15108&id=1124431815188

After rebate it cost me $650 - a bit over what I wanted to pay but it is a good machine for my needs.

Thanks again