The same things are happening on the Win2k side. Firefox managed to upgrade itself, but the updated plugins like Flash won't install because Win2k's Kernel32.dll is too old.

I've got a Fujitsu P7120D that's still a neat little laptop - that's my night-time reading PC. It's running Ubuntu 8.x LTS and is still running well. Trouble is, it has a 60 GB 1.8" hard drive that is nearly full and there are no replacements that I've been able to find.

Oh well.

I see that Lenovo has a refurbished i7 X220 with 8 GB, an IPS screen, and a SSD for around $1k. I've also looked around occasionally at the MacBook Airs but their limited RAM has always given me pause.

Maybe Tim Cook will have something compelling to announce next month...

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Scott.