I've made up my mind, and I'm going for a laptop. If I have to wait to get the mics, then so be it. Okay, basically I need a pentium II processor or higher. Expandable PCI slots for the sound card. LOTS of RAM, and a nice size hard drive. A CDRW drive as well. What about an OS? My understanding is XP is kind of shakey, along with 98 and millenium. Is Windows 2000 the way to go? I don't plan on playing DVD's, maybe surf the web, but I would go some sort of ethernet card for broadband. Just want to record/burn music. Probally looking at an external drive, like zip or something along the lines of that to store files. I'd like to go with an Apple, but since Steve Jobs has been back, their high prices are back. All opionions welcome. Thanks