Assessment My family has outgrown our old computer system. The last one we purchased was in 1996. It was a Packard-Bell system with a Pentium I, 166 kHz processor. At that time our kids were 10 and 5 and my wife was a complete novice on the computer. When we purchased the Packard-Bell, it was state-of-the-art. I remember the salesman at Best Buy touting the benefits of MMX technology (something I had never heard of). The system came with …showed first 75 words of 1140 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1140 total…included in the system were the UPS/Surge Protector, the scanner, and the printer. These were purchased online for a total of $245. This brought the total cost of our system to $2,639. Since we originally budgeted $3,000 for this purchase, we were under our budget. We also received a free year of Internet access from MSN. The spreadsheet on the following page is a continuation of Figure 2. It is labeled Figure 3 and outlines our purchases and costs.