Because that's how long a Norton Internet Security liscence lasts. Renewing the liscense just seems like a waste of money when there are potentially better freeware products on the market. I use Avast! anyway because it's less resource heavy and intrusive.

Oh, and my XP install always seems to gain a million random apps that I use once and never uninstall, so it's nice to have a nice clean install every January! However, I have had to reinstall on various occasions where something has gone tits-up and I'm too lazy/clueless to figure out what it is. I like reinstalling Windows; you tend to find things you'd forgotten about in that mad rush to save what you want to keep before it's all washed away. Kind of like re-arranging your bedroom, or cleaning out your car..

I really want one too. a hundred dollars is not much, especially to me as that is about £50 here in uk. (although i'd probs have to pay a ton in shipping). The only complaint i have is its seemingly extremely low storage space. i guess i could always use a big pendrive too though. They should definately get these onto the commercial market, but distinguish them somehow from the 3rd world ones. the last thing we want is some mafia cartel in the third world stealing them from all the kids to put on ebay.