The laptop arrived, as promised, the next day. HP's online ordering was pretty slick. They have some nice services, like sending you a mail when the order gets *processed*, not just when it ships.

First piece of good news - the SD port reads my SD card with no errors. Looks like I just managed to get two bum machines with SD cards from Fry's. Teaches me to buy a reburb model.

Second, these machines are everywhere. The dv1000 is a great machine, and given that Costco carried them for a while, I see tons of friends that have the machine.

Megan is totally loving the new machine.