Well 512RAM with windows 98 and less than a pent 4 is not a good idea. Win98 is'nt able to handle it.If you have Xp setting it to classic windows is a good thing to get more speed.Yes disc back up is what I do too.I burn a new disc weekly of all my files then delete them from this.... But more my solution was to have 2 pc's.I have a pent 3 -550 running xp with 512 ram for all the crap I download and for trials.If I like it I send it over to my Pentium 4 This way it is always nice and clean and fast.Hmmmm so why do I want a mac now also.

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