ive always used a 700 mgz hp pc, it came with winme, i pirated xp but it was slow (i had 64 mb of ram) i got linux, 64 mb was great with it, my friend gave me some old memory mods that i threw in there and am presently at 196 mb. and of course i paid absolutely nothing past buying the pc. i have no plans of upgrading, unless they start releasing good native games for linux, in which i would want a good 1.5 ghz and up. i dont even try to play games on this. im sure they would work well but not as good as my gamecube or ps2 so thats what i settle for.