Apparently you didn't stop reading there.. lol
Well the Dell system I bought for my brother-in-law because it was so cheap came with P4 2.4 with 64MB GF2 MX, 256 MB DDR, 60 GB 7200rpm HDD, 40X CDRW, 15" LCD, etc.. came to be around $450 actually.
It certainly isn't the best spec.. but hardly...