user upgrade questions regarding the m9750

i am on the verge of ordering this thing but have some nagging questions left.

1) do you have to press and hold the power button for a few seconds in order for the laptop to power on or can you quickly press and release the power button?

2) it appears the built-in mic is located just underneath the "L" and in between the "I" where it says alienware on the monitor screen. want to check on this. and does it do a decent job?

3) regarding connecting this laptop to an hdtv through the s-video port. my tv does not have a vga or dvi connection so i can only do hdmi or component for high def. does the laptop come with a component dongle and does the s-video port support the component hook-up for high def?

4) what about adding a 2nd hard drive yourself after you purchase it? will you need to order screws to mount the hard drive to the plastic from alienware?

5) it appears that the raid tools are built into the laptop so you do not need an usb floppy to load raid drivers if you rebuild your array or format, right?

6) is the tv tuner on the m9750 the same one used on the m7700? because i have a dead sager 9860 (same as m7700) with the standard tv tuner and would like to put that into the m9750. i do not see any tech support regarding adding a tv tuner yourself on alienware's site. and why is it only available with windows vista, won't it work on xp?

7) is there an indicator light during card reader activity?

8) any keyboard flex at all? is it as good as the keyboards of ibm or better?

9) does the finish feel good to the touch or is it rough? and do you think the finish will wear off or is it high quality? i know the chassis is reinforced plastic so thats cool.

10) i do not care about the alien head on the laptop (looks childish) so i am looking at maybe removing it or putting black tape over it so i cam curious at how dificult that would be. can you disable the glowing eyes in the bios?

11) how is the wuxga screen compared to the ones found on the sager 9860-9261 models? one thing i love about my wsxga screen from sager is that it is the best i have seen and would hate to downgrade from that quality. i am not looking forward to going wuxga screen as that is too much but i guess i will have to get used to it

12) i am thinking of getting one gpu now and upgrading to sli in the future when prices drop for the 7950gtx so i am wondering if the laptop ships with both heat sink and fans even for single gpu setups. would hate to order a heatsink and fan assembly as well as the gpu.

13) what mxm slot does this laptop have and will the 7950 gtx cards from the sager 9261 be compatible?

will they still be disabled even after you reboot or do you have to do it every time you turn on the laptop? i would think they had this in the bios options.

so you said that you have to press and hold for the laptop to turn on?

ok thats good to know. on the sager 9860 and alienware m7700 (they are the same clevo laptops) you have to press and hold. they do this for security reasons to prevent accidentally turning on the system by something bumping it or it being squished inside a laptop bag but i hate this security feature and just wished it turned on without having to hold it for a second or two.

thanks for the help so far. do you think you can test the built in mic by simply the sound recorder and test how loud it is or how loud it can get? i have heard that the mis is very poor. i do alot of video conferences so i would need to built in mic to be at least usable, or as good as the one found on the m7700.

so for the raid drivers i need to download those off their website and put them on a floppy disk. then when i start to do a fresh install when windows asks to press F6 i need to do that and get the drivers off the usb floppy drive, right?

i run 2 anti-spyware scanners and anti-virus scanner at the same time while working in my cad program and surfing the net while waiting for my image to be rendered so i need the speed of raid 0 otherwise i can't multi-task like this.