My plan was to take the operating system offerred. Windows Millenium, But I'm starting to get a different message. Also the idea of a writeabe CD and a cheap CD is really intguiing. What is the downside to AMD processors, I've always been concerned that there were some applications that were InTel sensitive. Has anyone experienced such an application? Finally yes I guess there is a Hardware section. But in my defense only the techno geeks read it and I need answers My simple Brain can get around.