"a quad-processor hyperthreaded smack-your-bitch-up machine" Not good enough Tuttle. I need specifcs like model numbers, prices, availability, manufacturer names and sources! LOL! Seriously though, if there is anything we can count upon it is that upgrades are never ending. My first computer was a real power house that had cassette data storage, a massive 16k of ram and absolutely astounding character based graphics. Animating it was real easy- you just picked it up from here and put it down there...(not easy because it was bigger than my desktop). The sound of the printer rocked me to sleep at night- in fact it rocked the entire neighbourhood. Now I use a 1000mhz notebook with incredible colour graphics, 640megs ram, massive hard disk, built in dvd and cd burner, scanner, tablet- the works. But I know in another 5 years the give away calculator in a cereal box will make this look like a trinket. - Jack