The Laser was the first computer I owned; the first one I got to play with was a genuine Altair 8800. Aaaah, the days of toggle switches and LEDs...! I need to find one, just for nostalgia's sake. Of course a more modern one with 64 k of ram and dumb terminal capability would be better..... :P And Dell has earned the monikers Smell and Hell for good reasons, customer confusion and propietary hardware being the top two reasons. I would =love= to see a resurgence of the white box stores. The quality was better, the prices about the same, the option list was ungodly by comparison, and it meant that a geek was within driving distance.