I presently have a Inspiron 8600. 1.6 Pentium M (banias with 1 meg L2 Cache). A 40 gig 5400 rpm drive and a GeForce Go5200 with 64 meg of ram. 512 Meg of system ram and a 1280x800 screen. I was looking at either upgrading this system or just selling it and scrounging some extra cash and getting a Inspriron 6000. I figure they will be going down since Intel has released the Mobil processor. If I were to upgrade the 8600 I would get a Dothan with 2 meg of L2 cache. At least 1.7 GHz. And a ATI 9600 card with 128 meg of ram. Leave the drive, system ram and lcd alone. On the other had does the ATI X300 PCI express that much faster than the 9600 AGP? I'm happy with the 1280x800 resolution on the 8600. And it has been a good machine. I would just like a faster processor and video card. Thanks Greg