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					Originally Posted by StirCrazy
					
				 
				  as for ram, yes I will agree tyou need lots but I will recomend 1 gig.  ram is cheep now and that will only be about 250.00ish  I have taken a few 512meg computer on win XP up to the 1 gig mark and man there is a difference.. seams XP settels right down with a gig and flys.   your next important this will be your hard drive.. lots of room.  a 120 gig is about 180.00 now.   
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 Heh.  I guess fish isn't the only thing that's cheap in Vancouver.  I picked up a 160GB Samsung Spinpoint w/ 8MB cache yesterday for $125.  WD and Maxtors were similarly priced.  I picked up 512MB Samsung DDR400 for $94.  Vancouver computer users have it good.