I have changed my strategy with pc’s. I am now concentrating on sleek (meaning not maxed out) pc’s with all data storage on-line on server / NAS device. That way I can use any pc and access data from any machine on the network. I am working on TS (terminal services) on windows 2008 to run the apps from the server as well. This is not going as I’d hoped, but it shows promise in that I can install one instance of (some) software and maintain on the server instead of across several pc’s (ever get annoyed at all the updates on several machines?) I currently store NO data on my pc (including email - Outlook), all data is stored on file server and backed up every hour to NAS device so if server goes down, I simply re-map data vol to NAS and continue to run. And since I am not willing to be down at all, I also back that up hourly to 2 separate usb drives. Why so many? Because I have an over inventory of USB drives! J My bad for buying several 160 Gb USB drives awhile back and then needing way more server storage, so now I have several of these USB drives hanging out so I thought I would use them for multiple backups. The only down side is the electric bill, but that is easier to pay than data recovery service of my drive crashes.