I don't know how much you want to spend, so I can't give you an exact idea but...
I was just doing some looking for my father who wanted to buy a new computer for about $1500. You can get more computer for less money in this ball park from the K6-2 processors. The K6-2-350 benchmarks about the same as a PII-400, and cost a lot less. BUT the PII will offer a longer upgrade path. For a modest machine the Celeron 333 cpu is a good buy. If you buy a Celeron cpu based computer with a BX chipset motherboard, then you have an upgrade path to the PII-450 cpu (If you have the 100mhz memory installed anyway). Dell offers such a configuration (about $1500 with a 17" monitor). This is what my OM will probably get. This machine comes with windows 98 and microsoft home office software and a winmodem. If you only want to install linux call them and ask for a quote with NO software, and a REAL modem. The Dell dimension 333v (celeron) was rated a best buy by PC magazine. I'm about to buy a new machine and wonder for which hardware to go. It won't be an expensive machine so I consider a cheap 3D AGP graphics card but wonder which one can be used under X. Also what's the better buy for the money, Pentium II or K6 II? Michael P.S.: Please CC me as I'm not subsribed here. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
