Mrs. Flynn has a 17" LCD on her desktop, and I have a 19" LCD. These are 14" widescreen at 1280x800, so a little small on the text, but I've already adjusted to it. We're looking to upgrade these to 2 gb to match our desktop configurations, and so I can run Visual Studio without too many problems. I also bought the Vista Ultimate upgrade, so I may run that after updating the memory. To solve the cruft problem on the installations, I made a set of recovery discs, then created a Windows XP image with one laptop, using the untouched laptop to get information on the drivers (all of which were on the ACER site). The only problem I ran into was installing the image on to the second laptop. Got an error about a missing Autocheck.exe file. After Googling the error, I found the problem -- the partition was set as hidden for whatever reason. Fortunately, I had a bootable Partition Magic disc. I had to boot into that and use a utility called ptedit to reset the partition type, then go into the recovery console and run fixboot and fixmbr. Yeesh! :doh: At least that works and we now have an image that we can share between the two laptops. We're planning to do the same thing with Vista Home Premium in the near future so we can update when we're ready to. Flynn