On Apr 3, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Bob Blick wrote:
>
> At $139 to $199 a pop for 2000 or XP, I think the money
> would be better spent on a new computer.

You're looking in the wrong place.  Try $299 for a whole computer,
including WXP.  Although I think you'll need to tune XP or pay
more for a memory upgrade :-)

>
> The pain of reinstalling all your favorite programs - priceless :)

How many "favorite programs" do you have?  I'm all in favor of
starting from scratch and not installing favorites until you
actually need/want to use them.  Cuts down on cruft...

> Though I suppose all the people suggesting upgrading the
> operating system were not suggesting you actually "buy" it.
>
I am.  At under $400 for a usable computer, you shouldn't object
too hard to buying it as a dedicated piece of development gear,
even if you do NOTHING else with it other than run MPLab.  And at
$200 for WXP by itself, you might as well buy it with a computer
attached...

BillW
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