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Just to give you a US dollars idea of the why-wait situation: if you have a nice monitor, keyboard, and mouse that you want to re-use with your new computer, you could build a nice up-to-date computer in the $400-$700 price range. WinXP Pro upgrade for students is only $81 at NewEgg. Longhorn might not arrive until 2006, if MS pushes the release back any further (which it has done many times before).
Are you sure that's a PIII at 333? My chart only shows them starting at 450 . . . [but it doesn't matter much anyway, the Katmai PIIIs were very similiar to the PIIs just before them]
The warning about technologies just around the corner actually applies to folks who want to upgrade certain parts on a short cycle (for example, replace video cards evey two years, or cpus = for these, the supporting connections are constantly evolving & often the entire motherboard has to be upgraded. Not a great problem, really, motherboards don't cost that much, and provide the best answer in most of those cases anyway).
. . . Gary
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