I purchased a beautiful new laptop. I originally intended to let Dave use it until he was able to buy one of his own. However, our mutual friend Tom managed to fix a laptop that is actually much better for Dave's needs than the one I purchased. So I have a new laptop- it was less than a third of the cost of the laptop I bought 4 years ago, and it actually fits comfortably on my lap. In fact, the device is so spiffy, I even take it off my desk and around the kitchen/living room to watch videos while I'm doing chores. I've realized too, that this is the kind of laptop I wanted for school all along. The original computer I bought for the intention of taking to school was not suited for it at all. It was heavy, noisy, and large. It was very heavy. It wasn't very conducive to porting around or playing on a small desk. This new laptop, however, is light, compact, and if I need to put it on my lap it fits quite well(but that may be because of all the weight I've lost). This new machine is actually exactly what I was looking for in a laptop.

But there is one thing I don't like about it. It has Windows Vista. There may be some apologists out there for this Windows Millennium Edition 2.0 operating system, and I say have another glass of the cool-aid. This OS is slow and clunky, takes forever to start up and shut down, and is very difficult to customize. I've read in several locations that my video card, an Intel GMA 4500HD should be able to handled Warcraft and a few other games decently on low to medium settings. It loads the game but plays at a whopping 11 frames per second! I thought I might keep Vista on this computer to learn it, but I don't think it's worth the hassle.

Thankfully, after a tip from Jay Nickerson(Batavia Computer Center), I purchased this laptop with the knowledge that I could indeed upgrade to Windows XP. I think I'll be doing that sometime within the week. I think this laptop deserves something better than this vile crapware known as Windows Vista.