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Toshibas are generally pretty good. I know Drew has put a couple through their paces to good result.
When ND was a kid, Dell took away his candy.
I had a Compaq desktop that sucked so bad it pretty much put me off that brand for life. Never owned an HP desktop, but I dealt with/worked on enough that just sucked ass that I'd never buy an HP branded box again, either. Pretty much sworn off HP printers, too.
I've had more HP desktops than any other I think. I've never had too much trouble with them.
Who was looking for a Wii? I'm in Costco right now and they actually have them. Call me if you want me to pick one up. Phone is in profile.
Jessica was wii-hunting in the gaming thread.
iPod saves soldier's life: [link]
Okay, I promise, last question. Am I going to notice a difference in speed between 1.6 GHz, 1.73, and 2.0 GHZ on a Pentium Dual Core T2330?
Re: the recent XP update--this played havoc with the software my company makes, resulting in a huge uptick in support calls. It was chaos before we tracked it down to the Windows update and figured out what we needed to do to fix it. Fortunately the patch that Windows put out was sufficient, though there were a few network re-installs that really pissed off the customers.
Still, it was very freeing to be able to say, "No, that was Windows' fault".
Am I going to notice a difference in speed between 1.6 GHz, 1.73, and 2.0 GHZ on a Pentium Dual Core T2330?
I suspect that depends what you're doing with it.
Primarily editing text in Word or Open Office, possibly compiling ebooks for Palm, Mobipocket, etc., possibly some web content editing work, and definitely doing memory intensive graphic art stuff--using the Wacom tablet and PhotoShop.
The difference between 1.6 and 1.7 is pretty negligible. You'll notice a difference with the jump to 2.0 on the graphics work, but not anywhere near as much as the difference between more or less memory. If it comes down to a budget question between the faster processor and maxing out the RAM, go for the RAM.