I got a new laptop yesterday: Dell inspiron, 17" screen, core 2 duo 2.13ghz, 2gb ram@667mhz, 7200rpm serial ata drive, more 3d card than one needs unless one is playing Quake4.  Hmm, sounds like we need to install Quake4 at work for Team Building.  My previous laptop was on its 4th year of service, its 2nd round of ram and 2nd hard drive, with the 2nd one looking like it was on its way out due to more and more bad sectors being found by chkdsk.

Its amazing how fast Outlook 2007, Visual Studio 2005, etc. run with the fastest hardware Dell would currently sell me.