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I myself am fairly new to the setup (within the past week). I find it most useful for coding or web browsing, because that's when you can really get a lot of windows going. Other times, I find myself dragging windows onto the second screen just to justify having it. As for gaming, OpenGL...

1) I hear the Pioneer 115 has a digital audio extraction problem. 2) However, it has something like 44x max CD read speed. Most DVD drives are rated at 40x, I think. Still, it's no huge boost. It's also a bit faster at DVDs. So I guess the Pioneers are faster, while the Toshibas are a...

I'd say all of the above. I hear PCI vs. AGP doesn't make a huge difference, but a Celeron 2-- especially clocked lower than a P3-- will show a big difference. Doubling your RAM (up to 256MB; I hear going higher doesn't help for games and most applications) is also big, though 128MB isn't so...