I must be having a lucky week - I just got a new dual-core AMD 5200 box at home with a 20" Dell flat panel (to replace a 5-year old P4 1.8) on Friday, and yesterday afternoon, our IT guy came and swapped my 3-year old Thinkpad and 6-year old 15" CRT for a new Dell laptop (Latitude D620), 17" flat panel, and docking station.

Life seems to be much faster now - it no longer takes 8 minutes for the PC to boot, login, load Outlook '03, and have the system be responsive.