On 11/26/2013 3:58 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > The $200 comes from googling D865GBFL price. that board is expensive because its ancient, there's likely very little NOS (new old stock) left in the channel. the 865G chipset was new in May 2003. An Atom based netbook has more horsepower. so does an android phone. re: $300 desktops, yes you can find them, usually last years consumer big-box store crap-quality, on clearance sale... frankly, those kinds of systems really aren't very good quality, although if/when they work, they'll do the job -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast