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Bargains are good!
For video, copy the file(s) to the HD. Set the screen resolution to 640x480 or 800x600, and 16bit color. Of course, before playing make sure nothing is chewing up too many cpu cycles.
As for the HD, anything helps to a degree but it won't be dramatic. Too many bottlenecks on a system that old. If you find a cheap 5400 handmedown, sure, but a 7200 rpm drive is worth about the same as that computer.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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