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From searching around, to see the nc8000 in person, you might try calling a local Office Depot to see if they have any. Also, just an FYI, going from a 5400rpm HDD to a 7200rpm HDD is about a 20% faster performance gain in average seek...

Yep, aadadams is right. The nc8000 is a 3 spindle job ... 1 fixed optical for your cd/dvd drive, 1 HD, and 1 hot-swapable multi-bay for floppy-cd/dvd-xtra HD-or xtra battery.

Yep, same thing happened to me re: the i8600. Really sad too, because they dropped in price + I finally received a 10% off coupon -- I could really get a good deal on it now! But I'm more interested in being awed by my machine than the...

Just my opinion... - must be a really new model because it's not even showing up in searches, google or at HP - from my past experience, I have found that purchasing demo models of anything is usually not a good idea, lest you're...

I almost got the i8600 too - but after reading waaaay too many horror stories about the probs w/the machine and w/tech support ... it scared me off. I've had too many duds and don't want another. I did spec one out yesterday; looks...

Hey - thanks so much for your fb aadadams! I'm pretty picky and I definitely have criteria to be met, and this system is the only one that meets 99% of the specs I want. If it had an integrated numeric pad - it'd be 100% perfect. I...

Thanks Teegunn - it helps a lot to hear positive fb about the tech support. That's an important factor to me. BTW... I see that the i8600 base price (in small business) has dropped down a bit more - probably even more so by next month.

so sorry about the misspell of your nic!

jaymanjohns ... yep, I checked that one out too. But, no DVD burner, and I really want 128mb v-ram - and it has max of 64 and only 266DDR. But it's a good looking machine and a good buy. I've had an ABS for the past 4+ years - till it...

c_s ... thanks for your info. Good news that the drive isn't partioned AND that HP included cd's for the full version OS and drivers. I took one last look at the Sagers, but I want to be mobile and under 7# so I'll stall out for a few...