Thanks Illusions for your 'direct experience' comments, For memory upgrade, it was way cheaper than I expected (like 20.00 USD for another 1gb stick!~) Definitely I'll max the RAM slots, and possibly get a faster HDD. (found one from Newegg, Hitachi 80gb whish is NON-SATA. I believe Thinkpad t43 won't accept SATA HDD, am I…