Hi. First, thank you for your serious consideration of my questions. Everything here has been helpful. The Acer looks good but to get it to the memory and screen quality of the Inspiron 6000 would cost, I am not in the US. I have heard Acer are good because the cases are big and they basically have desktops in them so upgrading used machines isnt so hard. I now have a Compaq Presario with a 1GB RAM (shared with video), a card that has openGL, 70Mb usable disc space and a very fast 150Gb portable external drive. My Compaq has been very reliable. My desktop machine has served me pretty well with Poser 6. The 70,000+ vertices figures run slow but I manage. For the longest time I was running P5 with 256RAM the video and WinXP were using 90% of that. Somehow it ran on virtual memory and actually worked! I use the P4 and Reduced Resolution figures a lot. I only use Millennium 3 resolution figures when I have one figure in a scene which is often the case since I use Poser to replicate traditional figure painting. I know I certainly will not find a laptop that will come close to my current desktop in resources, however, I do have reasons to want a notepad for the $1000 to $1200 I have even though I know a laptop is not optimal for this kind of work. I have Parkinsonism and it is at times difficult for me to be at the computer. It would help I could install myself at on the couch or sitting up in bed when I want to just play with making digital art. Paint and brush is getting more difficult for me. I would only use Photoshop 7, Painter 8, PSP 9, Poser 4 and 6 on the new machine, no games or anything like that. I plan to use the external drive for Poser content storage. I will not use the laptop for wireless or even for Internet, only the Poser and lo-res digital painting. I realize I might have to use the notebook to put together Poser scenes and then take the .pz3 to my desktop computer for full renders. I just want to make sure I can use the P6 on the laptop and do medium quality test renders... I was concerned open the issue of OpenGL since I don't know what it is, I believe I need it for P6, and I am more concerned with responsiveness in creating compositions then with raytrace renders. I want to use Firefly but only up to that middle quality where raytrace starts to kick in. I need to go to Future Shop and see if I can figure out which machines has OpenGL. The staff has not been helpful. This Dell Direct is a few hundred less then even the refurbished machine at the retailers. Upping the Dell to 2Gb would cost $400, not feasible. So mainly it is the graphics cards that concern me... seems like gamers spend more on the card then on rest of the system. I just cant figure out the card requirements since it seems like there are a million cards out there. Things like Shared DDR2 SDRAM 2 Dimms and 1.7Ghz/2MB Cache/400Mhz FSB are meaningless to me and I dont understand which CPU are up to this kind of work. The most import issue for me is OpenGL and if the CPU and memory configuration will work for Poser. Acer... I have to see if I can get a good price.