hey, i've still got a PIII kicking in my living room hooked up to the tv as a youtube box (my main pc is in the recording studio and i'm typing this on a much newer laptop...), but i pulled it up to the board max on ram (1 gb). old ram like that nowadays is worth pennies. and honestly? if firefox wasn't such a pig with resources, and so many websites weren't so picky about browsers, it'd be entirely useable as a day-to-day machine.

and load time is roughly thirty seconds if i take the large external full of mp3s out, and a little more than a minute if i keep it in.

somebody's gotta port off like firefox 2.0, do what sites like youtube need done for access without the whistles and maintain it for old machines....

but, if anybody asks about those old asus boards? yeah, they last. and that quantum fireball 20 gb drive from about 2001 is still spinning...