Slick, my problem wasn't with the Dell machines themselves, it was with the support ID10T's on the other end of the phone. The Army pays big $ to dell for the support contracts, but getting parts out of them is like pulling teeth sometimes. I like the machines, I just have an issue with some of their support people. My favorite was I got an error message telling me that the EIDE driver had a hardware error, and the person on the other end of the phone wanted to know if I had checked to make sure the cable was connected to the drive. Excuse me? It's a laptop, there's no cable, it plugs into a slot on the motherboard. Well, just check the cable to be sure! It's cutting through the first layer of people who are reading a flowchart (if this then do this) to the people who can actually HELP that's painful.