Well Basically I will be getting a laptop from a friend. It is a dell a few years old, running on windows ME. I usually do outdoor craft shows and some indoors. electricity is no problem though. Now, I want to be able to use this laptop with a POS. I want to use something that will help me check out customers more efficently. I am getting more and more customers, and sometime they have to wait will I check someone else out. I would like to just scan their items, tender their ticket, and hand them a reciept which will save me time. I have trouble keeping up with inventory while I sell because I cannot write everything down since I usually have too many customers to stop and jot. I tried counting everything at the end of the day but that is hell especiall when I want to just go home after being sunbeat. So I want my POS to track inventory for me too. Something with added bonus would be great, like taking coupons, possibly tracking cutomer info, so maybe I could do a buy 10 get one free thing eventually. And it would like to be able to run sales reports as well, so I can more efficently do my sales taxes and stuff like that. I do 2 diffrent sales tax zones so I would have to be able to change from rate to rate depending on which county I am in. I looked up some and they started at over 1000 just for software. I dont really need anything fancy, and used is fine I would think. I found this on ebay, but it does not come with the scanner and stuff, I guess I have to buy that seperately. IT sounds like what I need I think. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7171716152&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 Thanks!! I hope this can help ya help me lol!!