Ed, How's this price?
http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10250639&loc=101 I've bought from Buy.com several times with excellant results... (Unfortunately all the small local computer shops, which I've used in the past, are 'going away')
(big snip! hopefully not out of context)a 600MHz Celeron is going to be able to do soft decoding
if that's all it's doing. Couldn't have said it better myself!
I don't know where you buy, but I can pick up a 4x DVD at Staples for under $150, and better than that shopping on the net. It doesn't include a decoder card, but I'm recommending it as a CD-ROM on 'roids for software. Decoding may be adequate given the right video card; some ATI and Matrox cards have either significant hardware assist or full DVD decoder capabilities, and a 600MHz Celeron is going to be able to do soft decoding if that's all it's doing.
-michael
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare, I had to cram so many things to store everthing in there. - David Bowie
