OK -- need advice -- I absolutely adore my HP Pavilion even though it is 5 years old -- but in order to do larger paintings -- I need the following: 1 gig of Ram 60 Gig or more HD 1 GHZ for speed Can I update my HP Pavilion 8396 to this? It now has a: Processor: GenuineIntel Pentium (R) II 451 MHz Math Suppport: On Chip BIOS: Phoenix Technologies Bus Type: PCI,ISA, AGP, USB Ports: 1 Parallet, 2 Serial Memory: 512 (47% Utilized) Floppy Disks: 11.23 GB, 30.0 MB Multimedia: Sound, CD-ROM Video: 800X600 in 32bit Color, RAGE PRO From the looks of the above I would have to add 512 more in memory? A bigger Drive and a different Processor -- in order to update. I looked at systems out there but they do not have what I want and are over $2500. So would rather update if I can. Please give me your thoughts on this. Thanks Judith http://www.agoodread.com "Sharing is the Key to all our Success" To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk