It's not just you Andy. Once I'd finished installing XP Pro on Amy's Mini 12 (45 second cold boot versus 3 minute bloated Dell Vista) I thought I should probably upgrade the BIOS. With your experience fresh in my mind I downloaded the app and quit everything before I started it. As soon as the program loaded the computer became unresponsive for nearly a minute, afterwards the upgrading process visibly started and thankfully completed successfully. Other than launching the app, I'd not clicked 'anything'.

On a side note, I love the Mini 12. Shame Amy wouldn't let me put Ubuntu on it instead of XP. My work laptop is slowly dying and the powers that be have agreed to let me replace it. I'm thinking one of the cheap Dell 8 core Xeon workstations (approx. £800) and a Mini 9/12 laptop which would still be cheaper than the original laptop cost. I'm just not sure wether I should get the 9 or the 12, shame there aren't any in the shops to look at.

I was looking at the little Acers in Tesco's this afternoon when a lady came up and said I shouldn't buy that model because it had 'links' (sic) and nothing worked with it apparently. I should buy the one with Windows instead. I thanked the lady for her advice and walked off.