Core2 DUO 2GB Ram Laptop

[Moscow Mule]

are those HP Pavillion which burnt?

HP/Compaq nc8230

[interested]

HP laptops are utter tulipe. This piece of crap I'm working on now won't boot with the battery plugged in. One other in the project team has failed completely (motherboard fried), another exhibits the same symptoms as mine.

I am seriously considering getting the IT gents to create a clone of my hard drive on a firewire disk so I can use it with Parallels on my Macbook

It's easier than that - use Parallels Transporter - and you can just clone your PC and have it running in Parallels in minutes