Earl Truss wrote the following on 8 Jan 99, at 10:57:
>Adding up the lowest amounts listed above, I get $835 and it does not have
>a CD-ROM, floppy drive or a monitor.  Including those runs the cost up to
>around $1085.  Yesterday's newspaper had similar systems with no monitor
>advertised for $400 - $600.  At that price, it becomes difficult to build
>a system yourself and buy the software to run on it for anything close to
>what someone can walk into any store and buy ready to run with software
>and support (such that it is).

That is probably for a Cyrix chip incorporated MediaGX.  The
advertisement may say "300" denoting speed, but believe me, it in
no way comes close to the speed of a Celeron 300a and a TNT.
The $400 - $600 systems in stores now are really only good for
word processing and general office tasks or running apps from 3 or
4 years ago.  If you try newer games on those systems you will be
sorely disappointed.  Even the manufacturers of those systems
say so.

-dj

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