Cats & Cadd is meant as a profit
                  business. At this time I could not make a living from
                  my current clientele so I don't try to. Most of my
                  clients are small businesses and government
                  organizations. I do make house calls but some times
                  the job requires me bringing the computer to my home
                  office to do the main event. 
            In general I can usually find the best
                  prices for computers and parts and am aware of what
                  works and what doesn't. A typical speed upgrade will
                  be a motherboard, processor, fan and memory. Due to
                  the way prices are constantly falling its hard to
                  quote a price but I would say a ball park price is
                  about $300.00. A used machine less the monitor
                  typically will run about $450.00, A new multimedia
                  computer on average runs around $700 and about $1000
                  with a 17" monitor. 
            If these prices seem low it is not
                  surprising, since like I said I can usually find rock
                  bottom prices on systems and with a few minor changes
                  such as a good motherboard and a Western Digital hard
                  drive the machine is solid and trustworthy. 
            My philosophy is to buy today's technology
                  today for a good price, usually less than $800 and
                  plan on only keeping it for 5 years. This
                  approach generally will keep upgrading to the next
                  level of technology reasonably priced at about $800.00
                  and insure that you have current technology.  
            I am very happy for people who can afford to
                  buy tomorrows technology today, only problem with that
                  is it will typically cost close to $1500.00 and by the
                  time they pay it off  they wish they had a new
                  one anyway.  
              
             
                     
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