Reply to Harris's Post: i have had several strokes which have rendered my left hand useless - i want to use dragon voice recognition software for all the normal office apps - surfing the web - no games- i learned to use dragon on a p4 3.8 1 gig ram and have been using a celeron since. the difference on the slower machine is very noticable - but the real difference as far as i am concerned is using usb microphone, far superior to the normal sound card route.