>> Damn - what on earth could you possibly use 1 TB of disk for?? o_O
> 
> My home server has close on 500GB of drives and is over half full.
> Assorted downloads, pdfs, Virtual PC images, ripped CDs (mine), Ripped DVDs
> (mine), backups of the other machines
> It adds up

Wait, back up... virtual PC images?

OK, that'll do it by itself. The default install of Windoze XP eats well 
over 1 GB of space. Add Office for an additional 1 GB of space gone. It 
wouldn't take very many PC images to fill even the most cavernous disk...

BTW... it's possible to rip DVDs??

>> My current motherboard doesn't even *support* more than 4 GB of RAM.
>> Although I guess RAM is much cheaper now than it used to be.
> 
> Most of the higher end ones support 8GB

When I bought mine, it *was* high-end. Brand new chipset, supporting the 
new socket-939 standard for the then-new Athlon64 series, allowing you 
to break into this new-fangled "64-bit computing" thingy that everybody 
was so excited about.

Jesus, my PC is old. o_O

>> Dual-core is becomming common, but I don't think I've met anybody yet
>> who can afford quad-core.
> 
> Hi Andrew. Nice to meet you.....
> Or did you mean meet in person?

That can be arranged. ;-) Or... I like to delude myself that it could 
be. I think that would be kinda neat anyway...

> The quad core 2.4GHz is around R2000, the quad 2.66 is R4500. (The dual core
> 3.0 is R1800, Dual core 3.16 is R2500)
> I'll leave you do do the curency conversions if you like (current exchange
> rate - R16.1 = 1 pound)

Doesn't mean you can buy it for that over here. E.g., Adobe Acrobat 

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