Don't forget that you pay sales tax at the pre-rebate price.
Pricewatch.com has the best deals on the internet. An Athlon 2800 goes for $700. Pentium 4's start at $740.

Beakybird

Thanx for the replies.

I think I am going to hold on this one.

Beakybird: Thanx, I did a search on Froogle which seems to have the lowest prices. I think Pricewatch.com will sometimes be listed in their search.

I found out Athlon 2800's start at $629:
http://www.ubid.com/actn/opn/getpage.asp?AuctionId=10400720&s=uwb70000

Pentium 4's start at $479:
http://store.yahoo.com/surpluscomputers/tote81pi85no.html

Here are a bunch listed quite cheaply for the Pentium 4:
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Pentium+4+laptop&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-17,GGLD:en&tab=wf&scoring=p&sa=N&start=50

I think these may be refurbs, but then so what? We bought our Nokia cell phones for $25 apiece. The warranty refurbs.

I suppose I will check out the refurbs and ebay.

Judging by what I want to do would you computer techies give me a list of what specs I should go after?

Scott