Intel Expected to Cut Pentium 4 Prices Over Weekend – Northwood is the code name for Santa Clara, California-based Intel's newest Pentium 4 chip, in which some of the dimensions are as small as 0.13 microns. By comparison, a human hair is about 50 microns wide. By moving to smaller line widths, Intel is able to put 55 million transistors on a single chip, and it has said it gets about twice as many chips per wafer on the 0.13 micron manufacturing process than with the 0.18 micron process.

Very cool! By the way, we've spec'ed out a machine for my mom; I believe FullBrain will be building it for us. Five fans might be overkill for her, though. She's not the overclocking type – unless she's cooking lasagne.

Case – IceBox 5000 400w w/ 5 Fans
M/B – Intel D845BG
CPU – P4 – 1.8 S478 – 400 FSB
RAM – 256 DDR PC2100
HDD – WD 60gb – 7200 – ATA100
FDD – Mitsumi 1.44
CD – Creative 52x
CDRW – Plextor 24x10x40 – w/ Burnproof
Modem – 3Com 56k v.90 2977
NIC – 3Com 905CX-XM – 10/100
Sound – SB Audigy 5.1
Graphics – Nvidia Ti-200 – 64mb
Monitor – Phillips 109S 19″ – .23dp
Keyboard – Microsoft Elite PS/2
Mouse – Microsoft Intelli Optical USB
Dude. I want one. Anyone got a few hundred bucks I can borrow? I'm good for it. I'll come over to your house on the weekends and give your cat computer lessons. I'm a certified professional, you know. I've mastered Microsoft Paint. How many people can say that? Don't even try running the Microsoft Movie Maker without taking some kind of class first. It's the right thing to do. Hire me. Will eat for work.