So, there you go. A very fast machine that flys through everything I've thrown at it (so far). I can't attest to its reliability because I've only had it for 2 weeks, but if the past is any indication, HP should hold up under pressure. I had been extensively using a PII 450 MHz HP up until this point (5 years), and it's still going strong as my secondary computer; never had a major malfunction with it! One last thing, total hard drive memory may be 120 GB, but upon first activation I only had a net of around 99 GB. Apparently, this thing comes jam packed with 21 Gigs of programs (most of the good ones you'll have to pay extra online for full or continuing activation) and a partition dedicated to system recovery. Yikes! Common HP, spend the extra 2 bucks per computer and make those recovery disks for us!