[Halcyon]

I'd have to agree with foreverwar. The speed at which technology progresses is so fast we now have a much better value for money.
As soon as Multimedia sound and video and the web hit the market it gave a standard too and computers all had to conform to basic multimedia requirements. This together with gaming pushed graphics and performance and really took things to a higher level.
There was a period where motherboards were being pushed out as everything onboard and that often lacked quality components....eg. onboard sound and video.
Look at individual components now. Sepearate graphics, sound, better device controllers, etc.

Ah, the days of when I had my 486 SX 33 without the Maths co-processor as it was too expensive back then.

It's funny when you look back and see that a computer in "Color" was a must have feature.