i want to thank all of you for your input. i know technology changes so fast & you would probably be owning tons of gadgets if you tried to kept up with it all. i don't expect the PE to be updated forever, it's just that it started out with such an old version, well maybe it wasn't old at the time it came out. i'm just learning all of this from the forum & the shopping networks i watch. infact the HSN customers were saying that the EE & PE had an old version, my main concern was not buying an item that was outdated before its time. i love all of the features of the PE, besides loving this forum. not a day goes by that i'm not on this forum going through the posts. i just don't want to seem like a pain in the neck asking ?'s all of the time, even though this is a wonderful group of people here. well i guess i'm going to keep it because i really do like it. what the hec, you only live once!! thanks again.