Originally Posted by ScottC
Why bother, after adding a new drive and more ram you are out at least $450, for $300 more you can pick up a brand new machine
Not always. I have a Sony Viao 505 that is really small and light. A replacement would be a couple grand, maybe close to 3 grand. It may not be the fastest thing for windows but it works fine with Linux, which I have on there as well as windows. But the disk is real small. I was considering using it for mail (Outlook) in Windows and everything else in Linux. Are there good places to upgrade disc drives?