<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 23, 2008, at 2:22 AM, Ed Gould wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I need a laptop computer that can expand memory up to 32G (more would be a plus) and has an optical drive and has a "hard drive" that is say over 180G AND a builtin ethernet card (or at least one that you can attach to it). The hard drive can be some new "something" that looks like a HD it doesn't have to be a PURE HD (physically I mean). Oh yes and have at least a 17" monitor that is SVGA or better (the computer of course must have a SVGA graphics card builtin. A battery that can last at least 8 hours or be able to be plugged in to an airplane receptacle . A Firewire connection port and a USB port would be nice. Sound card is mandatory.</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div>OK, I can agree with that, but I would add that an extra four drive bays for a RAID 5 array is mandatory too. Also, four PCI slots, dual displays (both dual link, of course), are essential. It needs to be able to withstand the impact of a fall from an airplane at 40,000 feet. It shouldn't weigh more than half a pound. Anybody who would pay more than $50 for such a Mac has more money than brains... Sheesh, what an idiot.</div></body></html>