Yea, but think about it. It includes a $240 flat panel monitor (which was what attracted me to this deal, because i want a flat panel). It also comes with a copy of Windows XP (which can be useful, whether its for this system or not) so thats around $100. Then with 1 GB of ram and a processor which i'm almost 100% sure is faster than my current, this is a deal thats pretty hard to pass up.