Sorry, infi. I bet you'll feel much happier about this turn of events as time goes on, though. Take a break and pamper yourself, you deserve it.

Thanks. I know it will be OK. Today I have full wallow allowance and tomorrow I start feeling the weight lifted off me. And it's gonna feel really good.

don't see a reason to appeal. And say what i've been saying all along?

They can have it. this phonewophone wont post right wtf.

it keeps jumping and adding words and it's weird.

anyway, thanks limey and clod.

and my guy, who thinks i'm Better than sliced bread. Thank you.

Now raise a glass to my can. :)

the world is my oyster.

Most anything you needed a desktop for is now done with a laptop. Typical screen is 14 or 16 inches.

Netbook is more portable than a laptop, smaller, works better as a portable machine, and has limits.

If not doing serious work - if only needing communication and web surfing - then tablets are an acceptable alternative.

I'm not sure whether to tell you I'm sorry, or to congratulate you, Monkey.

At least the torture is over. Did I mention they are fuckers?

Bummer IM. Prayers for a new job headed your way.

DO NOT TOUCH A GATEWAY

I've heard, mainly from TW I think but other sources too that Toshibas don't live up to their brands reputation.
On advice from many of these threads on different boards over the years, I've always looked at Dell and HP, they've always been nice, only has died, and that was covered by an extended recall, but the IT guy didn't catch it :mad2:.

I'm going to wildly speculate you want a laptop, so you slob around the house with it.

4GB is RAM memory, think thinking space, to run all that stuff that is happening right now, 4 is plenty for surfing/office type stuff.

320 GB is hard drive, filing cabinet space, that's kind of low end, but plenty for office stuff. If you tale a lot of digital pics, it's going to fill up, but you should be backing them up elsewhere anyway, if you take video then it's not enough. 500 is bit more standard maybe.

Modem is for dial up, they're cheap, but so few people use them, especially on a laptop they don't even bother anymore.

AMD is the brand of the processor, i.e. brain, as opposed to Intel.
last I looked Intel was winning the nerd war, you pay more for Intel, but get more, would you notice the difference, dunno.

Dual core - instead of making one brain faster and faster, they put in more brains, theoretically they share the work out to hget more speed, or one can shut down to conserve power ( when on battery for instance).

15.6" screen size is the standard you can go smaller ~14" for more portability or larger 17" for, i dunno, movies? Bigger screens are heavier and sap batteries, smaller screen will last longer on it's battery.

all laptops have wireless, webcams are pretty much standard now.

I didn't see the price on your gateway, but HP for $300

IMHO, laptops are an evoltionary side branch now, you can do 90% of what 90% of people want to do on a tablet or even phone.

I bought monster a no name Tablet for $60 from walmart, I do most of home email and surfing on that.

Love all the comments but replying from this phone is all effed up short sentences only.

I'll go to the library tomorrow to reply more. :)

Sorry you got canned ,their loss , those fuckers dont deserve you !!!

Momdigr uses her 7" ColorNook a lot for surfing the web, Facebooking and such. She even uses it in bed (with earbugs) for NetFlix.

If I were buying new, I'd just take $500-$600 to BestBuy/Wherever and buy as much laptop as it would buy. You'll prolly be plenty happy with what you get.

Or ya might luck across a pawn shop ColorNook for $35 like Popdigr did.

Oh, and Congrats/Condolences!!!

Oh hai! Just now getting back to this thread. D'oh!

My new computer plans are on hold now anyway, but thanks for the advices.

I have a computer that I bought at my old job...has everything but an OS. What are the views on that? Can you just buy, like, Windows 7 and put it in and it installs? I wish I were a techie.

And thanks for the congrats/condolences. I actually woke up today almost smiling. :)

What kinda computer?

a grey one