>> For my purposes I want to put the iBook on my lap, have AppleWorks 6 >> and >> Microsoft Word open at the same time, probably Entourage too. I want >> to be >> able to flip between the three and not have the hard drive spin up >> once. I think Word 4 was the last version of Word that would operate in a book mode and very, very seldom access the hard drive. Wanting this to happen is not a bad thing but I can't see it every happening. Now if you were using a Tandy 100 or 200... Those were the days, cool, silent running, light weight, 24K of memory.,. --- In an article about DoubleClick, Wired posts a DoubleClick cookie: <http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54769,00.html> http://www.jackrodgers.com