>> heck I own two new HPQ notebooks bought since August << I always bought Dell... In the last 2 months I have bought 3 HPQ laptops, 1 desktop, and 2 all-in-one machines... That's 6 purchases Dell lost and HPQ got... And I'm very happy with the HPQ's (so far)... Out of the 3 laptops, 2 have AMD's... So too bad INTC...LOL...