The PC I bought is a Pentium 4, 2.6 with 40gb HDD and 256mb ram. I
didn't realise when I bid on this box (Ebay)that it would have an old
version of Ubuntu but its interesting that you think the latest
version may have suitable modem drivers. Mind you the thought of
changing the operating system scares me, its why I bought a system
with it already installed. I tried a few times to install Windows on
my other computer and I always had trouble, I just don't have the
geek genes I guess