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Any suggestions for someone going for the first time just hoping to learn/explore?

Also consider the Latitude 2100, which was designed for use in classrooms. It has options for a touchscreen and an anti-microbial keyboard. The exterior is also made of rubber, which would prevent against scratches and dropping. It comes in black, blue, green, yellow, and red.

haha oh god... its froze

Does anyone know if the paypal payment will affect your monthly receiving limit?

Apparently it's in the terms and conditions that if you get cashback from ebay, it has to be through paypal.

You can select check or bank account in payment preferences, which I have done, but then it only lets me select paypal when I go to "pay me". sigh.

Don't know where you heard about 160 gigs per platter, but I can almost guarantee you that's false.

You don't need to upgrade the power supply unless you plan on adding a quad core processor with a high end graphics card. Dell's power supplies are of high quality.

It takes at least 24 hours to show up.

It seems like there's a 150GB and 74GB VelociRaptor in the works. See the VelociRaptor support page. http://support.wdc.com/product...sp?groupid=612&lang=en And here. "Specifications for the 150 GB Serial ATA II VelociRaptor drive (model WD1500GLFS)."...

Okay so now everyone post your purchases. I got 2 Denon D2000 headphones for $160 each including cashback (normally $220). Then I got 6 one hundred dollar bills for $436 including cashback. Thank you Microsoft :).

keep refreshing the page and you will eventually get 35%. Try camcorder.

This is on a brand new install of XP. When I had the 150GB raptor as a secondary drive with the 2x36GB raptors in RAID 0, the benchmarks were way higher. As far as real world performance, I notice it takes pretty long to load windows. Any ideas...

Yea, I just gave up and reformatted.

I tried that (I think... your post is a little hard to follow). Let me explain more clearly what happens... I press any key to boot from CD, and it tells me that another upgrade is already in progress. I select continue upgrade and it just keeps rebooting. If I select something to the effect...