That sense is really a decision to see the good in all things and is born and reborn of the choice one makes to seek it out and of the discipline required to ignore all that is perceived to be bad around it - one granule in a sea of sand. When what one does for a living is design and build personal computers, it can be very easy to get lost and lose sight of why we do it - with so many changes impacting the PC industry and so many pressures on builders, large and small, it is all too easy to get swept away in a sea of negative energy. Costs are up - way up, and margins could not be more down. Differentiation is all but impossible for smaller builders who have less access to the resources large builders have to develop compelling case designs with a fashionable twist - a nice trend driving some laptop sales. All in one designs are attractive, but expensive [to buy and build], underpowered and only fit a very small segment of the market - where too few people are willing to drop so much for so little on a second computer, or as a replacement for the primary systems people usually pass down as they moved up - moving up to less power? Not gonna happen...