RBUL

Thought I might add to the mix here......My X5 is about eight months old and has served me fairly well aside from some initial bugginess the first few days I had it where it would not shut off...just kept turning itself on and running down the battery....fixed that with a bios flash update....the battery life has always sucked though ever since the first week. Well, today...for the second time it just completely and unexpectedly re-booted itself back to it's initial "new" state.....all my paid for software and data vanished in a goofy sounding twinkling beep!....gone forever!.....So I called Austin, Texas to speak to the berry berry nicey nice rep in Bhopal or New Delhi (someone has definitely messed with Texas!) who agreed as part of their "total satisfaction return policy" to send me a refurbished unit. Not a new one , a refurbished one. Apparently this qualifies as having blown a suficient amount of sunshine up my nose to leave me with a warm and fuzzy friendly feeling about Dell. Anyway..I've abandoned all hope and the only fun thought is that if the new unit is at the very least not as suckfull as the first I will try to port OpenBSD or Linux to my new open source Dell AximX5 and get off the microsoft teat!