I will use it like a home- home business PC, but I also would love to be able to hook up a nice sound system for music, and some toys like DVD/RW. I've figured that XP is not the real problem but there are others like Norton Security, Money, MS office, Acrobat, that come with build up systems; these I'm using now, and I think I will need them. Have a P3 laptop now, but I'm getting sick out of it (three years old) my budget? I figure don't want to spend more than 1.8K.