Thats rather odd.
When I purchased my dell laptop a while back I was given the same offer. When I went to the site ( https://www.dellvistaupgrade.com/default.aspx ) and filled out the required information, it only came to $10.64. The cost of shipping.
Either your going about it wrong...
I doubt anyone here could give you an answer without knowing what program you use for email. Every program stores them in a different location. Tell us that and someone would be more than happy to answer your question.
You should be able to import the *.dbx files back into whatever email program you use them in without a hitch (refer to jstnomega's link for Outlook Express).
If you need a program to recover the emails from a *.dbx file because you cannot get Outlook Express to open them, you will want to...
Only way you will run windows within windows is with VMware, or Virtual PC
http://www.vmware.com/
or
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
Last i checked that HDD was only $95....no where near $300 http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101220-13
Although I'm not exactly sure why you're getting a RAID specific drive....
Ok, so I got this powersupply yesterday: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817194004. to replace my old one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817159053 (sad, I know.) It will RANDOMLY (less than 10% of the time) power on.....in my room. Most of the time...
I looked around for a bit and didn't seen any info on this. I'm looking for a good/decent PCIe RAID controller capable of doing Raid 5 and *hopefully* online capacity expansion. Obviously the cheaper the better, about the ~$200-250 range, maybe a little higher
So far all i've really come up...
Google goes along way....according to the one site i looked at, you have no free slots. Your stuck at 512MB.
http://reviews.cnet.com/eMachines_M6809/4507-3121_7-30921475.html
Another way to check would be to flip over the laptop and unscrew the cover for the memory ;)
Yes it will support the x2 4800+
As for the overall quality of the motherboard, its either you love gigabyte or you hate them, personally I like them, my last mobo was the same as yours except the non-sli version (K8N Ultra 9) and i never had a single problem. I even overclocked my 3200+ to...