I have to give some respect to Micro$oft for actually supporting their old operating systems for extended periods of time. some mac user once said that i probably couldn't get much software from after 1998 that was still compatible with Windows 98SE, and it made my brain hurt. first of all, 98SE came out in 99, and second of all, most software up till about 2006 still works with 98SE, and even a lot from after that. anyways, yeah. I'm in agreement with everybody here. I had a Windows 95 laptop that was janky as hell (only had a floppy drive, parallel and serial ports, a vga adaptor and two type II PCMCIA slots, a 16 color 640x480 display panel, that died, unfortunately. that and the fact that the power cord wouldn't stay in, and it lacked a battery, made me give up on it) but at any rate, it had very little ram (not sure how much), a 66mhz 486DX2 processor, and a 512mb hdd (with drivespace 3 on it, expanding it to about a gigabyte, maybe a gigabyte and a half. I never ran out of space on the hard disk, for the short time I was using it (and there were alot of files on it from former owners, at that), and it ran only a little slower than any other computer i've used. a truly epic computer. considering that, if I had had that computer in better condition, I could have totally used it for most things, its pretty amazing. even 98SE isn't bad at all. I have a nice fast usb/cardbus supporting laptop with only 700mhz processor, 312mb RAM, 10gb hard drive that does everything I need it to. can't beat that degree of cheapness:functionality ratio with XP or Vista, now can you?