I'd say that's not a bad deal. Dell's are fairly reliable (Michael's a home town boy) and they have good do-it-yourself support. You can type in the "control number" or whatever they call it and bring up your computer (not one like it, but *your* computer) on their website and they'll have all of the updated driver packages, etc. for your system.

My only question is do you get the OEM XP CD's? Or does the OS come pre-installed on the hard drive?

HP has a good package that I was looking at this morning. It was around $900 (US) but the monitor was only like 15" viewable. It comes with NIC & CDRW & 40 gb HD, but only like 1mghz chip though.

Can't remember how RAM it had either. My philosophy is you can never have too much RAM, unless your running Netware 3x.