<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> If someone's needs change, is that the original manufacturers fault? In three years it will still run every program it runs today. It probably won't run those programs using the original, proprietary, non-replaceable, battery though. ;-) Don Bosman On 6/13/2012 8:54 PM, STeve Andre' wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4FD93645.2050403@msu.edu" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> It isn't about hating, it's about losing the ability to do things with it after you've bought it. The idea that ram is soldered in means you don't have the option to think about expansion later--you have to guess now, what your needs are likely to be. </blockquote> </body> </html>