Well, when I decided to upgrade, I went to Staples amnd bought the cheapest AMD they had.(May, 2000). I already had a good monitor and sound dtuff, so got a Compaq Presario 7360 (500 Meg AMD, 32 ram, 20 gig HD)Has been working fine since with no more than the occasional reboot. This is the second time I have followed this strayegy, and its been fine. Cost me $547 as I recall.
Sandy