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hi jimmy, a standalone full blown 486 with svga, 420M drive, dual floppies, 4M ram, etc. runs about a grand from places like top data and dee one systems. it will come with its own case and power supply and expansion slots. the amiga has but a few AT slots available and no room for any PC addons like floppies and harddrives. i added a 1.2 M floppy to my amiga and used up the only availabe drive bay. the expansion chassis alone costs about $500 (to give you more slots), the bomac tower is $300 (to give you more space inside the case. the janus software is extremely slow, so you'll have to add an ide drive $300-$400 for any type of performance. and if you want to run windows you'll need a cyrix 486 upgrade which is another $300. you'll need a vga monitor $300 which must be retrofitted by a flicker fixer which runs about $200. the all in one ide/vga card is another $200. and of course the extra bb ram because the bb won't run on an amiga with more than 6M of ram. and then if the amiga breaks down, you lose your pc also. i love my amigas dearly (a cult thing, i think) but i am typing you this note on a standalone 486 cherried out and steroidal packed for far less than it took to get my amiga to just run windows. hope this helps, david