I have encountered this problem on many vehicles in the shop i work at and it might be normal for a brake pedal to travel quite a bit when your are at idle in park. However, you would never press the pedal that hard or as far down when driving. You would end up through the windshield for sure. In my experience your particular vehicle has this weird feeling pedal travel when you are idling in park but the brakes perform as they should when driving. Air in the hydraulic system would cause a spongy feeling not a fading pedal, so bleeding is not likely to fix the problem. if there is in fact a failure in the system I would be checking to see if the ABS module is bypassing fluid pressure by blocking off the master cyl. if the pedal is high and firm( no travel) I would then block off the flex hoses and check for pedal height and drop. if this is ok un-block one flex hose at a time and see how much drop if there is a substantial drop at a certain wheel I would verify the hydraulic circuit to that wheel. first by bleeding to see if there is any air. Then I would put my attention to the hydraulic unit. Though I am confident that this is how these vehicles are and you don't have anything to be concerned about. Hope it works out

I can only guess about your brake problem. You have not reported any loss of braking effort, just a momentary change of pedal height when the brakes begin to act, so there may not be any serious problem. Consider this: Your car probably has an ABS (or anti-skid) system. For some ABS systems, these are not active immediately following a cold engine start, but will check out and prime themselves a few seconds after the transmission had been engaged and the vehicle moved a few feet. In my jeep, I detect this by a pulsing sensation in the brake pedal and a rise of pedal height while backing up from a parked location. The pulse motor can be heard faintly inside the cabin. It lasts for only a second or two. This checkout and priming only happens after the vehicle has been parked for a time. The degree of sensation depends on how much pressue is being applied to the brake pedal during this period. Could this be what you are detecting?

the links in owbist post are for the version of that laptop with the intel dual core processor that is very different than the celeron processor version you posted asking about. The dual core would be a much better choice however it is of course more expensive, well worth it though. They seem to use the same model number with various processor choices which is a bit confusing. Celerons just do not have much power especially if you will be using it in your office applications.

Crooks101 I read your post and you mention that you will give Miele some time to resolve. I see that you are concerned about the dryer not being made in Germany although it is designed and made by Miele just not in Germany but in the Miele plant that makes commerical washers and dryers, but what is the issue you want resolved and what outcome will please you? I went with Miele products because of their lifetime design intent - the 15 to 20 years design life. which is much better than the current 5 to 7 year lifetime I keep hearing about for appliances. I don't want to replace anything every 5 or 7 years. I have other M appliances that have been trouble free for as much as 10 years. I did not go with Whirlpool even though I had a WP dryer because the build of their current models seems to be weak and not made as well as my older dryer, plus my experience with my last top of the line KitchenAid washer that had 5 repairs in 4 years and ended up to be a piece of trash, and finally I did not trust whirlpool because they now make several other brands so have no real competition. I have been thinking about the made in Germany phrase and wondering what I have been taking this to really mean. What do I want from this? It is made in Germany by pure blooded Germans? It is made in Germany so the design and quality will be good? Can it be designed and made by a German company in their factory in another country? Can it be made in Germany with imigrant workers from other countries who live and work in Germany and will it still be as good? What difference will result if it is designed in Germany but still made by the same company located in an adjacent country? So What does this really mean for me? Sunday/Monday was wash day and so far 8 or 9 loads have been completed. The heavy cotton towel load took about 45 minutes on the turbo extra dry setting. The normal without turbo setting does very well with most cottons and the t shirts that I wear as outter shirts and my polo shirts come out without wrinkles--I like this. I have a few perm press items. These came out great on the delicates setting. All loads have been completed within 20 to 25 minutes( of course the washer is still doing the next load) except the load of heavy cotton towels. Where is the lint? In my other dryer there was a lot of lint. There is some lint from this one but nothing near the amount the older one was creating. There is definitately more air moving and more air sound. My laundry is in the basement so sound is not too much of a concern but after runing a few loads it is not as noticeable when I am in the laundry area. Not sure but perhaps this large volume of air might have something to do with the ability to use lower heat and keep the clothes from wrinkleing as much. The air flucuation may be coming when the clothes fall in the path of the front vent. There was air flunction in my older unit because I could feel it outside, but of course there was also a lower volume of air moving. In any case most of my loads are cotton and nothing needs an iron to it so I am happy. I do think that you are going to hear more noise from flex metal or plastic pipe that is not fastened tightly because the volumn of air will move it. Also if your vent pipe is not following the diameter specified in the installation instructions you are going to have more of a problem. So far so good with this dryer. My next load will be items with a silk blend. I will wait a month or two and see what I think then.