Ok, that sounds good. Would like to get as much info as I can before deciding. Yes, I figured there would be some config stuff that could be done to optimize perofrmance and i'll have to research this too. don't know the answer yet on specifics like processor, RAM etc. Probably something like PIV >1.5 GHZ or similar Athlon, 60 GB drive, 256 MB RAM, etc.

Well, i'm outa here right now to take my sweet wife away for a weekend together ( the "I have a life thingy" :-) ). I'll pick this back up on Monday.

Bill

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>I'll let you know. My son loves his machine (of course, he's comparing it to my old P200MMX), and he plays games on it.
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>I've got CFS98 so I don't know if I can give you a valid comparison (especially because of the difference between the two machines).
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>As for the performance, with a bit of fiddling, you can probably get more performance out of the box. Usually, they'll have some stuff that loads when you boot that you can get rid of. I don't know if part of the reason is the Windows XP theme. It's more graphically intense that the Windows Classic (that's what I've got set on my new machine). Further, when you say "high end Athlon", my questions would be which processor, how much RAM, free disk space, etc.