Agreed. My PC is going on 4 years old and I'm fairly concerned for the hard drive. Not sure if I want to get a new system or not yet, but it would be annoying to purchase a new hard drive, and more RAM, and better ports. I won't need my computer for anything other than word processing and media next year, so I might consider a Mac for the first time. I'm sick of Windows, but the price is the decision maker.