The new Lynnfield i7 860 is the current sweet spot for price/performance. four cores and hyperthreading with turbo up to 3.46ghz for single-threaded workloads. I want one so bad, but $300 for the chip, another $150-$200 for the motherboard, and ~$150 for 8 GB of DDR3 is more than I can justify when my Core 2 Quad is still running strong.
Why can't you just use a mouse or touchpad to minimize/maximize or whatever?
Because most of the time it's imprecise and slower. With a real mouse, one hand on the mouse and one hand on the keyboard is ideal, but touchpads are hardly ideal. I wish they still made laptops with trackballs
seems quicker to me. you can't do everything with the keyboard.
Yes I can. I can also tell you how to get almost anywhere in windows in one step from a run box (WIN + R)
I paid $600 for an Athlon XP 900+ slot A, not socket A, SLOT A. 
That, in retrospect, wasn't the day!
A Duron 1300+ was my first AMD chip. Upgraded it to an XP 2000+ a few months later for fairly cheap. That was just about the time that P4's were starting to catch up and overtake the XP's in performance.
