>> (A new notebook was on this year's list, anyway.)<
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>Just curious, I heard that Vista likes some kind of new "hybrid hard drive" to perform better. Did your notebook come with that? I am in the market for a new system and trying to figure out to what kind of HD that is.

Not that I know of. The machine came with a 200GB drive (one of the reasons I chose this one), but nothing special about it, AFAIK.

Tamar