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I have the same unit and I was puzzled by the low vista scores stock, my system scored 4.8 all based on the ram, all the other items scored well over 5.4

for me the plusses: Easy upgrade accessability, beautiful looking machine and the performance is very nice. cheap I paid 829 for mine..

the minuses: Right shift key is half the size of the left and often I hit the Up arrow because its near where the shift key should be. All the top row numbers are printed in a copper color and cannot be seen in low light at all, unlike all the other keys... No on screen display of volume lvl when you use the touch sensitive volume control. The 9 cell battery sticks out like the one on the XPS13xx laptop and makes using a sleeve impossible without the battery pulled.

BUT these are all ergonomic issues in the end, the user will get used to the keyboard, and at least its nice touch type keys, no clicky clicky, and full keys.

Its still the best bargain priced laptop you will ever get right now, aside from the P-77xx series.

On the raid note, do not enable raid in the BIOS (yes it does not support it but you can enable it and make arrays) but the southbridge is only an ICH8M not ICH8M-E so you may corrupt you current main drive even if you do not make any changes. Just a heads up unless you like recovery