Why? Why is it so freakin' difficult to get a straight answer out of some computer people? All I want to know is what kind of RAM my computer will take and what kind of processor will work well in it. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. You would not believe how freakin' hard it is to find out this information. I've contacted people on E-bay who have told me to call IBM who have tried to sell me a stick of 256 RAM PC100 for $299.00. And the guy said that that was cheap! I found the same thing after looking and looking and looking for around $70.00. IBM told me to not even upgrade the processor. I'm gonna anyways! I just wish people would just give the right information to poeple like me who only have a small clue about the big picture. That shouldn't be too hard, should it?