I *highly* recommend APC. I've had Belkin in the past and the battery died after 1 year. The APC units are *slightly* more expensive but in this case you really do get what you pay for! I now have 3 APC RS800 units and an Ultra UPS for my NAS. My primary reason for the UPS's and the Wattage they ouput is that I only want enough time to be able to have them properly shut down. Plus, APC comes with software you can install on your computer to initiate different actions once a power outage is detected - i.e. Shutdown, Hibernate, etc. I also have several other critical things hooked up to them: 1. cable modem 2. Vonage modem 3. wireless router These are critical to me since I have Vonage and need to keep up my Internet conn. and Vonage modem in the case of a power outage. However, I also have Vonage configured to route incoming calls to my cell phone if my Vonage modem goes offline (very nice feature!). Make sure you plan ahead for a couple things: 1. What is your primary need for the UPS (obviously one of them is for Surge Protection? Is it to allow you to just have enough time to properly shut down your computer(s) or do you need it for an extended period of time? 2. Do you host any websites or applications for clients that need to be available? 3. What will you be plugging into the UPS? Just the one computer or several components like I do? Hope this helps - but definitely go with APC! :) DaveBlack

VisualParadigm has several free "Community Version" Products all of which are REALLY nice even though they are free. They have: 1. UML Tool - http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/communityedition.jsp[^] 2. Smart Development Environment (SDE) for integration into several different IDEs - http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/sde/[^] and several other related products which may be of interest to you. DaveBlack