i personally like dell myself. even though my hard drive recently broke down, and it's taking 2 weeks to get to me... i still insist that dell is a great company.
you should switch back, it was the hitachi drives that had the awkward clicking sound. if the disk was hitting the metal casing, then the hdd was bound to break imo.
the 8600 batch about 5-6 months ago? it made an awkward clicking sound... probably the disk hitting something. i have it. and my hard drive has recently died.
go with the pentium-m. you'll hav a much higher resell value, and the pentium-m is much more powerful than the celeron, and yet it has a longer battery life. celeron-m is a nono.
good luck selling your comp. i posted a
2500+ xp barton
abit nf7-s mobo
geforce ti4200
kingston hyperx ram
cd-rw liteon
160gb seagate
for 500 and no one even bothered to PM me