Well, I just got my Dell yesterday via UPS, and it seems to fly low to me. I just installed VS 2005 Standard on it this morning, as well as Blitz 3D. Both of these programming suites seem to go well on the same machine. This way I can determine where the best game programs lie. Of course, Microsoft seems to be most popular brand of computer programming right now, unfortunate to say. However, those were the programming languages I have to grow up with, like QB, the old VB series, VC++, etc... Seeing as tho MS wants to push you to use the Professional Edition to make the best programs, well, that's the only version of XP that'll let you port programs to Pocket PC. Plus, a notebook PC like this, and a Pocket PC (Dell Axim X30 624 MHz) seems to go together when it comes to being productive with programming. Should be interesting to see what happens.