I bought one of these 7050's and loved it. I then encouraged 5 friends (DOH!) to buy the same model based on the excellent features and useablity. Big mistake. Most failed in 3 - 5 months. I examined the first unit to fail and found serious overheating issues in the power supply. I then replaced three leaking capacitors and moved a hot resistor off the power supply board on my unit, and it lasted about 2 yrs total, but still failed. This power supply PCB should never have made it out of the engineering lab and to the manufacturing floor with the obvious shortcomings it has. These were all manufactured in sept of 2004. Maybe Lasonic has redesigned their power supplies by now, or maybe not...I wouldn't risk it again.