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Hi there, IBM UK is sending me a refund check for my comatose 365X (see below) and I am thinking of buying a 760E. Two questions: Do the 760Es really get very hot? Will the memory of the 365X work in a 760E? My 365X story: 1 October. I buy a 365X. The right arrow on the keyboard sticks. I FedEx the machine to IBM Service. The 365X gets nicked while on transport. Insurance claims, refunds etc 20 October. I buy a new 365X. I add 16MB of Memory. The bloody 365X refuses to suspend/hybernate. I send it to IBM service. Ooops, the 365X gets roasted while in service. Yeap , I get a refund. 1 November. I buy a new 365X. Yes, after a FABULOUS continuous 4 day work, the 365x says, I have an error 714, get me bloody serviced. I send it to the IBM service. New motherboard. New Hard drive. 16 November. The serviceperson drops my 365X and breaks into peices like watermelon. Yeap, they give me a new machine. 3 December. The Hard drive spins endlessly. Service/new hard drive. etc The new hard drive starts getting a new bad sector every minute. Then, I say to IBM UK, give up fixing the bloody thing ... and they are giving me my money back My first 365X was a P100 (which became obsolete in the process), the rest P120's (yes I used the latest bios). All the hard drives were 810MB and they only failed when I filled them near to capacity (~750MB). Although, I always had the same model, no two 365X's were 100% identical, the keyboards varied, the plastic used varied, the adaptors varied, the under the keyboard cover varied, the batteries varied, ... All drivers/bioses installed were old or very old. Overall I liked the 365Xs but they showed a clear addition to IBM service depots. The IBM UK (Glasgow) Software support is/was/will be a complete joke,,, Don't bother to call them. Cheers Costas ______________________________________________________________________ Costas S. Iliopoulos Algorithm Design Group Tel: 44 (171) 873 2809 Dept of Computer Science Fax: 44 (171) 873 2851 King's College London Sec: 44 (171) 873 2588 Strand England http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/csi _______________________________________________________________________