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I just received my 360PE in the mail today!! Yipee!! Now. Anybody out there have one of these? I don't know what some of the function keys are for as I don't have the documentation. Also, could somebody tell me how to enter the CMOS setup? Tried Ctrl+Alt+S, which works on Phoenix and/or some flavors of Award BIOS. Tried F10 which works on Compaqs and I seem to recall some PS/2s, but nothing happened. For those who might be interested, I took it all apart (down to the point that there wasn't a THING in the case) and thought I'd share what I found. I was hoping the DX2/66 CPU would be socketed so I could put an AMD 5x86 in it but no such luck. Here's what I didn't know and what I couldn't find on IBM's web page or from anybody on the web: 1. As stated, the CPU is surface mounted. I know that there IS an upgrade module for it (for $300! yowee!). Anybody have any experience with these upgrade modules? Does somebody actually resoulder a 5x86 CPU on the motherboard, or what? 2. The hard disk, floppy disk and battery are all accessible by lifting the keyboard at the front of the unit. Hard disk pulls straight out. I was worried that it was proprietary (meaning an expensive HD upgrade) but it turns out that IBM just used a proprietary cabinet and inside is a standard 2.5 " laptop hard disk. Cool. 3. This thing has the 8MB memory upgrade card and it's for the 700 series notebooks, so it looks like memory is interchangable between the two. 4. If you ever want to see the CPU in your 360PE have fun. It's about as burried in the system as it could possibly be. 5. Components: The following systems are simple, removable components, meaning if you had to replace it you could do it yourself (and it wouldn't require a new motherboard): PCMCIA units, floppy, hard disk, battery, CMOS battery (and some other kind of cmos battery, perhaps for the standby stuff?), AC --> DC converter unit, and sound unit. Everything else is on the system board. Well, that's everything I learned. Hopefully someone will benefit from me typing all of this...and maybe I'll get a couple answers too :)