Our Dell Workstations arrived this week. I have to say I am really impressed with their case engineering. No neon, or see through panels... but one latch, and the whole top hinges open. Easy access to drives and the motherboard. All the cables are in the right places... even the power supply can be yanked out with no tools. The case is amazingly quiet too... you can barely hear it when it's on, and that's with Dual Xeon's and two 7200 rpm drives. I was surprised when I opened the Performance Monitor, to notice that WinXP was reporting 4 cpus. After checking inside the case again, I soon learned this is a side-effect of the Hyperthreading capability of the Xeons. I will say, that while the machine is certainly fast, I was hoping it would be even faster. I haven't used a new machine in two years, and certainly not a dual-proc Xeon. Maybe this is the problem. I'll see if the hot fix changes anything.