Thanks for the input guys... I took it upon myself to do some VERY basic testing... and I'll share my results if anyone's interested.....
The test: untarring a 88MB file full of .gifs and .html files Imac 400 Mhz 128 Ram IDE drive time= 53 seconds Celeron 700 Mhz 128 Ram IDE drive time= 80 seconds Celeron 700 Mhz 128 Ram SCSI drive time=21 seconds... Weird... seems like hard drive performance is very important too....:) I'm just happy that Debian offers both platforms!! I'll probably go with whatever is less costly..... thanks Mike
