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Hi Steve,
Taking the profits when they are there is always Golden. I need to remind myself of that also as my FHRX gave me a bit of a gift this morning but I was hoping the resistance at $5.25 would fall.
I bought a used 1.2 Athlon that has a Matrox dual monitor card. I picked it up last month but have only just set it up. I also bought a 1.7 Athlon from a garage guy and added a second video card to it. I only have room for 3 monitors right now though. I need a bigger desk now <GG>. I have two monitors on the desk and the third one sitting on top of an old stereo cabinet <GG>. I am Hoping that it will keep me from missing too much, I Hope. Now I need to get used to looking at all of the information.

I bought a new laptop last year before going to the PI. I had an older Compaq but used the trip as an excuse for a new one. I wish that I had gotten by with the older laptop though as 6 months later I could have picked one up with better features at the same price. My advice on a laptop would be to go somewhere to try a few of them out. Every laptop has a different feel and sometimes they are a bit awkward to type on. I liked the layout of my Compaq. I ended up buying an HP though as I wanted a 15" screen. The keyboard and sound system ended up not being as good as the Compaq though and now I wish that I had stuck with a Compaq. There are some great deals out there on laptops right now that have Huge memory and CDRW/DVD combo drives. I like having the DVD drive as I can watch movies on the plane if I want to <GG>. Anyway, if they have a Fry's electronics store near you they have a great selection of laptops on display to test drive. Ubid has some good prices on new laptops but remember that they might be last years models. Or this years models just before changes are made. My HP is a 750mhz, 256 Ram, 20 GigHD, 15" TFT, CD/DVD that I picked up on Ubid for $1300 out the door. Now you can get a 1.2 Ghz, 512 RAm, 20-30 Gig HD, 15" TFT, CDRW/DVD computer for less. The HP has been working fine but I miss the sound system of the Compaq and also the keyboard feel. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have anymore questions. Sincerely, Bob :^)

Good Luck to All! :^)
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