Mike,

I went from an almost 5 year old Inspiron 7000, P-II 300, XGA, 192mb, 20gb upgraded drive when I installed XP last summer to this P4 2.5, 1920x1200,512mb, 40gb. I'm really pleased, except for getting annoyed at the places in VFP that don't conform to my font appearance settings, and websites that use small font point sizes instead of % based sizes. Intellisense is horrid on the old box that's just not enough horsepower to run it. Intellisense is much better on a Ghz class machine.

>I just got a new Dell Inspiron 8500, too. Twice a fast (2GHz) as my last machine of a year and a half ago. Twice as much memory (512MB). But only 20% more disk space (up from 50 to 60GB). Sounds like a lot of space, until I start splitting this thing up into as many versions of Windows as I can handle. It should be an interesting adventure...