well i just bought this amazing laptop almost mint on craiglist in nyc yesterday, a birthda present to myself ....im here to learn the most painless upgrade path i plan on popping an expresscard 34 either a flush mount usb3.0 or a secong sd slot also flush mount upping the memory to at least 8 gb [ in that the max ?] swapping the HD to a 512 ssdor a 1 tb ssd i see a lighted keyboard isnt in the future anyway hi to anyone reading this .....although this laptop is years old , its condition and build and clean desigh makes it seem as if its a current product cheers , paul in nyc