Move up to a Power Machine and Thesse Cool 3-D Programs
The amount of computer power that you can get for under a thousand bucks is truly amazing. For around $1,000, you can build a one-gigahertz (1GHz) Pentium III computer with one gigabyte (1GB) of RAM.
I thought that my poor old 450MHz computer was a real screamer when I got it. Its 256MB of RAM even helped Adobe's Photoshop seem perky. While it can still do most things admirably fast, it is starting to creak a little bit on more complex tasks. As always in the computer world, a shiny new Pentium III at 1G