I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "aquazur-dra"
opened his gob and said:

Other recommendations of vendors or laptops (or both) welcome.

www.rockdirect.com 7 day no quibble return and 3 year C&R (insurance
backed) guarantee. They also supply a FULL OS disk, not a recovery
disk - could not find anybody else who did this.

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Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.