Well vista is still going to be fairly buggy.
[you do need vista for dx10]
Hypersonic offers the 7950GTX :]
I bought it, and its supposed to arrive around November 6th...
Your eSATA cable probably does not power on the laptop, does it?
As far as I know, sata cables transfer data, not power.
That's just my two cents.
You probably need to go digging and find the case's power ac adaptor...
