My opinion would be this. Since you're running Linux, the processing power would not be as important as you would have run on M$, so go for celeron and have as much RAM as you could afford in that tight budget. I'm currently building my computer, and although I don't have very much cash myself (I don't think any 16 year old kid does), I'll put 256MB ram in there so that everything would run very nicely under both worlds. Hopefully you picked up something that uses UDMA66 and 133MHz FSB. As to DVD, I believe it's sufficient as long as the connection between the drive and the computer is not slower than the speed of the drive. (like putting a 52X cdrom on an old IDE controler). But there's no soft DVD decoders for Linux (unless you can find DeCSS). Good luck buying your computer. PS if you don't mind, email me and I can give you some tips on buying your next one. Calyth -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/