Elwood, My old Dell Inspiron 7000 was getting tired or I was getting tired of it.. I don't know. Any way I orered a new Inspiron 8100 this week also, I could not pass up the deals they where giving a 1.2 GHz,512 MB sys. memory 30Gig hard drive and 15" ultra high res monitor and get this the New ATI Randon 64 MB video card for $2056.00 I can remiber paying $4000.00 + for my work laptops and getting a lot less.It's supposed to ship on the 19 th of this month. My question is how are the sims running on your new laptop? sure would like to know. Lee