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Hi bizzy901,
Search 'm9517c' from the home page of these forums and you won't find too many issues with this system. I've had mine almost a month. Very little for me to complain about.
The monitor is out-of-this-world crazy wonderful. Small problem with the 'ambient light' feature on the monitor. That's where the screen brightness auto-adjusts to the brightness of the room it is in. You can set that feature to be off or auto. For some reason when the monitor wakes up from sleep mode sometimes that feature turns itself off. Kind of annoying but not a deal breaker or anything. Just press a few buttons on the front of the monitor to set it back to auto. That ambient light feature rocks! I didn't know how I'd like it until it started turning itself off!
That 2.2ghz is not the fasted quad core out there and I was concerned that the vid card wouldn't have enough oomph for some of the programs I run. But this system processes the hi-def vids that I edit, WHILE running iTunes, Office 2007, PhotoShop, internet, AND webcamming 
and I think it could do more but that's enough for me. Oh, I have found the Cyberlink YouCam software that runs the webcam is kind of flaky. I haven't looked into it too much. As I said, I haven't had the system all that long.
I noticed that there is a BIOS update available that, among other things, adjust the 'thermal policy' or something. That made me pause for a moment. But my machine has not been running hot that I know of so I don't know what that's all about. And if it ain't broke don't fix it, I am slowly learning.
Just some of my observations. It's been rock-solid for me so far. I'm not a gamer so I don't know if that vid card is enough for that kind of thing. You buying from SamsClub? They have a 6 month no hassle return policy on their computers (well, only 30 days for the Dells).
Good Luck!
