Oh, I didn't know the meaning of the Z on your laptop model... not too bad, in my opinion. Read about "backward" compatibility towards mono core processors somewhere. Your experience will be precious.
BTW, it's nice seeing that there are travel mates in this desparados journey

Now the problem is: how to upgrade to Snow Leopard ? I've made some search around, but there is no iAtkos v8 available (if you find it, pls reply), and as you may have read in a recent reply the automatic update broke some parts of the system. So I'm very skeptical about the success of an upgrade from the retail SL DVD... we need something that's already patched, I suppose.

Right now, I applied the screen patch and it seems to be fixed... but USB... mmm don't know where to start.
Stay connected, Radi.