For 350 GBP you can get a Core2Duo 2.4GHz machine with Vista, 2GB RAM, 
320GB, ATI HD3650 3D card, DVD writer etc.

When was the last time you checked the Dell website?  Ever since I can 
remember they've always had something around the 300 pound mark.



When was that, 2 years ago?  Check again.

> 3. My motherboard (for an AMD socket-939 CPU) doesn't even *support* more 
> than 4 GB of RAM.

And how old is that?  !!Newsflash!! new motherboards can support more!

> 4. Why in the name of God would you even *need* that much RAM anyway? 
> (Apart from the fact that Vista wastes it all for you.)

Vista doesn't actually waste it, it uses it to do clever stuff to help 
things go faster.  Of course if an application really needs to use the RAM 
then Vista gives it the RAM and discards it's "cache".  What would be the 
point of having RAM sat there unused?  Anyway, personally, I need 8GB 
because I do simulations which often use over 4GB, and I'd like to have some 
spare to actually use my PC at the same time.  I don't imagine a "normal" 
user would need more than 2GB unless they were doing video editing or 
something equally memory hungry.

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