I bought a refurbished Compaq computer. Even though I formerly crushed the Compaq imperialists by boycotting their products, this computer is surprisingly perfect for my needs. I may change my mind about them. This is my Compaq Presario S4220nx today--anything labelled Original means it belonged to me before I bought the Compaq:

2.133 GHz AMD® Athlon™ XP2600+ Processor with QuantiSpeed™ Architecture
1024 MB DDR PC2100 RAM in 2 of 2 slots
Seagate ST3120025A 120 GB Hard Drive (plus an original Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 at 200GB, for 320GB total)
LITE-ON COMBO LTC-48161H 48x/24x/48x//16x DVD/CD-RW drive
HP DVD Writer 300n 4x/2.4x/8x DVD±RW drive + 16x/10x/40x CD-RW drive
6 Channel Audio onboard (replaced by an original Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Audigy 2)
Original Creative Labs' Inspire 5300 5.1 Surround System
VIA ProSavage™ KM266 onboard 32 MB Video chipset (replaced by an original VisionTek's XTASY GeForce4 Ti 4600 4x AGP with 128MB DDR-SDRAM)
Original Compaq P1210 22" CRT 0.24 mm dot pitch, set to 1280 by 960 resolution @ 85Hz Refresh rate
6 High Speed USB 2.0 ports (two front, four rear)
3 (plus an original fourth) FireWire IEEE 1394 (one front, two rear, plus another rear on the Audigy 2) ports
1 serial port, 1 parallel port, 2 PS/2 ports, 1 AGP slot, 3 PCI slots
3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive, 2 internal 3.5" bays, 2 external 5.25" bays
Via Rhine II Fast Ethernet (10/100Mbps) onboard, 56Kbps modem onboard
Compaq Keyboard, Compaq Wheel Mouse (both replaced by an original Microsoft Internet Keyboard and Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical)
Original Epson STYLUS C62 printer
Original Nomad Jukebox 3 40GB MP3 player
Original Ezonics EZVideo Chat Kit webcam
Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 Professional Edition installed on the 200GB drive, my Master OS. (My 120GB hard drive is devoted to the organization of my music and movies.)