Lovely, mate! Might want to get rid of your wife....she has bad taste in computers! :) I'm unfamiliar with some of your other models. I run the Titanium Mercury, 500Mhz, I upped the Ram to 1 gb, added a 250 gb HD and just replaced the old CD/DVD with a Superdrive. I am relatively new to Macs, but am a convert! I was so sick of the pc troubles. I love my Merc, it would sure be nice to be able to update the video card and MB, but it mostly does what I want. I do have to replace the top case, as the previous owner must have dropped it, it's cracked in a couple of spots. Welcome back! We are a pretty quiet group, but the knowledge of the group is amazing! Cheers! Kent (a colonial from across the pond!) "A person who won't read has no advantage over one that can't read." - Mark Twain "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read". -Groucho Marx