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I just wanted to share my experience with my IBM 755CX. First time, the 755CX broke within 2 months of usage---the display had to be completely replaced. Because it happened in the UK, I had to pay about $100 to get the machine to and back from IBM, and lost a week's usage. This time (4 months after purchase), the hard disk broke completely (lost about 10 days of work). An engineer came out, took the hard disk with him. Got me a replacement hard disk within a week. Get this: the replacement came without a system. So, I got a copy of MSDOS and started building the system. Unfortunately, the 755CX is not compatible with plain Windows for Workgroups (the mouse is moved, the hard disk locks up). No go---I need to start again. So, I spent the last 5 days, calling the service engineer, calling 5 1-800 numbers through which was rotated around for hours, and I finally found out that there is a recovery disk (from Paul Rubin from this mailing list). But of course, IBM wants $50 to ship me the CD-ROM. If I do not have a cd-rom, I can now pay $100+s/h to ship the *entire* computer (not just the HD) to IBM, and I will get it back sometime. It is not so much the money, but the way IBM is handling this---after 10 days of no machine usage, I have to spend not only time and effort to get the base machine back to how I bought it, but I also have to spend money. What a fabulous 3-year on-site warranty! Now, I hope that when the CD-ROM arrives, it will need to run off a PCMCIA installed MSDOS system, and replace it. This will be an interesting experience in itself... Well, I am going to recommend Toshiba next... /ivo