A Dell laptop that is.  Another thing that was about time.  I had been using my last laptop for about 4 years.  It was a Dell Latitude C800 which I upgraded till it couldn't be upgraded no more. RAM is maxed out (512M). Has 2 Hard Drives (40G & 80G).  A 1G Pentium processor.  I guess that isn't too bad, but man it was slow. 

I liked my last one so much that this time I got a new Dell D810.  1.7G M70 processor, 1.5G RAM, 60G 7200 RPM Hard Drive, and a nice 15" wide screen, & a DVD RW drive.

The real kicker is that my last one cost over $3,000 (without the upgrades), and this one came in right at $2,000 including tax. Sweet!  I love technology.

I wiped the hard drive as soon as it got here and installed Windows XP Pro instead of the home version.  Yes, I know I could have got the laptop with that OS and had everything configured all nice, but hey it saved me $69 to do it myself.  I have to admit, things are much better now days as far as drivers go.  I was able to load my resource CD and re-install all the drivers & utilities without a glitch in less than a half hour.  Now if Visual Studio would only load that fast!