Joel Laviolette <mbirame at yahoo.com>: > Athlon 3300+ (2.2Ghz) > 250 Meg RAM I'd get more RAM definitely. You don't ever want to hit swap with audio work (swap is what the os throws out to disk because of lacking RAM). 1 GB is good for me, but I'm a KDE idiot so you might be well off with 512 MB. Wolfgang