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Here's another good one, and probably a better deal. If you go to the Dell webpage go to "small business" instead of "Home and Home Office" the small business stuff includes less crap (like a monitor) so you can add more stuff (like Office) for the same or less money.

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=dim30min&s=bsd

I'd definitely recommend getting Trend Micro PC-cillin if you don't already have it. I'd not bother getting MS-Works, but Office or maybe WordPerfect suite (used to be better than office, but I don't know these days).

1 Gig of RAM is probably more than you need. 512Mb is plenty for what you say you do. I have 512mb ram, and a 2.4gHz celleron processor with about 60 gigs of HD space and I can surf the net, edit 8Mb images in photoshop, watch video full screen, pretty much anything like that. I usually have several things running at once and my PC runs fine. I can even play most games that are more than a year old. Some of the new stuff would stump my PC.

Right now what I need more than anything else is hard drive space. I have about 10 gigs of music and 25 gigs of car videos that are eating my harddrives.