<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 2, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Matt Rude wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I don’t know if I would call $300.00 USD cheap. You can build a nice VIA-M system for that.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>For less than that you can get a used Dell Inspiron 7500, and that includes a 15" LCD display, a hard drive, PCMCIA slots and pretty decent video hardware.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The "U-Buddy"s with the VIA processors can be had for $99 plus RAM.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Used PIII desktops are CHEAP is you have the space as well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This product would be competitive at $100 or so, not at $300 IMHO.</DIV></BODY></HTML>