KennyR wrote:
And does the same go for CPUs, do you think?
Not when your playing 3D games with adanced graphics, then you need all the pocessing power your machine can muster for all those floating point calculations (whatever they are).
However for everyday use, web, word processing and possibly simple accounts and graphics packages then an ass end second hand PC or Amiga would do just fine.
Toast (CD burning software on Mac) gives you a choice of speeds at which you can make your CDs burn, my top burn speed is 16x but with some of the crap quality media about (cheap cdrs) I choose lower speeds just incase I make a coaster or two. :-)