I bought my first Elitebook a little over a month ago. I was so impressed with the 8440p's quality that I promptly bought TWO 85570w's! I got one for $158, took 16 Gigs of RAM out, and sold it a week later for $290! Then, I sold that 1333MHz of RAM for $80 to make $370 for a $158 purchase! The other 8570w I had used that 1333MHz stuff in with my other 16 Gigs of 1600MHz RAM but realized I had better, faster RAM using only the 1600MHz. So, I now have this beautiful and fast 8570w with just the 16 GB RAM it needs. The only drawback is the K1000M GPU and the 1TB HDD. I will soon replace the HDD with a 480-512 GB SSD, but I guess I may be stuck with the not-too-bad K1000M for awhhile until I can find a bitchin' 8770w with DreamColor, the i7-3940XM CPU, and K3100M instead of K4000M GPU. I'll go with 32GB RAM in the 8770W. I strongly recommend these older Elitebooks to anyone short on cash. They are definitely the nicest, strongest, best-performing of ALL the laptops out there, but for possibly the absolute latest i-7's and certainly anything with an i-9 in it. Must be nice to have one of those! DO NOT GET RID OF YOUR ELITEBOOKS JUST YET!