Windows NT Workstation 4.0 usually runs around $270 - $300 dollars. I've been getting it lately for less than that, but I've also been buying off of the GSA Schedule for the Federal Government (the Army actually, but who's keeping score? :) The average Joe off the street can't get it at the price that I have. The best thing to do in this case is to just suffer. The main advantage that WinNT offers is stability. And that's OS stability. If the apps like to crash (like RDS, for example) it's not going to help. It WILL help in that it wouldn't bring down the whole computer at the same time, but ... :P If you don't have the $300 to spare, I'd just stay with Win98. It's not THAT big an advantage. HTH, John