But if you do that you will be giving up just when you were about to achieve enlightenment ! :-) Sounds like it's a matter of you being the person out at the 4th+ standard deviation of the normal curve of failures--it would be a pity not to see how long this could keep going. Especially since Apple seems to be paying for the fun. My own experience, covering a 700MHz 16VRAM, and supporting a 14" 8 VRAM and an original 500MHz, has been fine with me. The 700MHz had the battery failure which affected many of its vintage, and Apple Store just swapped me a new one with few questions. The 14" had a stiff lid hinge and a sticky trackpad button--neither fatal but both annoying--, which Apple fixed in like 2 days door to door. No warping or other problems. AppleCare on everything. We're deciding when to get the next laptop, and whether it will be an iBook or a 12" Powerbook, maybe the latter to have the G4 to optimize speech recognition. On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Fran Dollinger wrote: . . . > and I'm seriously considering selling the 800MHz when it is returned. I . . .