Thanks for that Chrome. I 've just been reading an article about Vista and your saying pretty much the same. There are issues with it and after all apart from the eye candy [at my age?], program use is more important than OS. The other PC here is still running 98 just fine [Zoe likes it].

The AMD4600 duo [65w] I've ordered is 2.4Ghz for $160 compared to the 3500 single core [90w] it's replacing, which was 2.2Ghz and cost me $350 [now $100].
As for Quad cores, apparently they are noisy[?] and really, I can't see many rushing out to get a new mobo platform to run one and what applications would benefit? Anyone need to do 4 things at once?