Slouching from Babylon
Hm. Seems my preferred truck manufacturer is migrating away from the darkside. Nice.
Oh, and Dell has made Ford the poster child company for doing away with legacy hardware. Welcome to the world guys! Apple did this four years ago.

I should investigate what will and will not boot off of my new 64MB Lexar JumpDrive.

Tangentially, I went ahead and ordered an Asus A7V600 motherboard. It actually POSTed with only the CPU in... but that's as far as I got time-wise.