I think you'll find that £500 is $861.678

As you say, $500 is more like it (£300) - especially given this one is ex-demo, has "No power or usb or serial or box" and only has 20Gb (as 2x10Gb) of which only one is installed (which means opening it up and playing with the dodgy IDE connectors - or risking that a 2nd drive won't work))

Caveat emptor as they say - and that means considering the worst

David, UK