This is my brain on Post-it notes

[grammarwoman]

Well, there's nothing like getting the stick after the carrot. I glumly decided that I couldn't justify the Burbank trip, what with the economy tanking and making muddy the solid financial ground I thought we'd found. Then the husband's car broke AGAIN, and yeah, it looks like we're going to have another case of happy bonus money being eaten by mundane costs.

This is on top of entering week five of cold symptoms, and having the PA diagnose it as a combination of cold and allergies. (I staunchly maintain that this doesn't feel like any case of allergies I've had before, since I don't want to scratch my face off, but the chest congestion is driving me batty.) Plus the husband is on antibiotics for his own sinus infection, and the Emperor's birthday is in two weeks and 75% of the prospective guest list have already canceled, and I'm evidently insane because I'm actually pondering hosting Christmas this year, and...the brain, it just doesn't stop.

However, I am bound and determined to find some silver lining here, so I am by gum going to get myself a new laptop.

Of course, now this opens up a huge Vista* of dithering. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go PC rather than Mac, as much as I still feel brand loyalty to the latter company. I'm poking around the Dell site, especially the outlet deals, but there are so many choices for my limited brain power! My needs list is: supports basically unlimited online surfing, including as many YouTube offerings in a row as I want; runs Microsoft Office; supports whatever software I need to start vidding; wireless is a given; as big a hard drive and as much RAM as I can get; DVD RW drive; decent battery life.

I am useless when it comes to hardware, I know, and it's a willful blind spot. That's one of the reasons I count on my husband so much.

So, anybody feel like offering an opinion on computers, especially when it comes to specs and software to enable vidding?

* Vista = DO NOT WANT. Do they actually sell computers loaded with Windows XP anymore?

Comments

Get an Asus

[(Anonymous)]

Having destroyed three laptops in school, I can tell you that gateway and dell laptops are total and complete crap. my first gateway overheated at the drop of a hat. my dell lost its key sensitivity almost immediately - nothing like standing on the "e" key to get it to work. my second gateway lasted longer, but then the motherboard fried itself somehow and I almost lost all my data.

I now have an Asus brand laptop, which I adore. I bought it gently used (like three days of use while the person waited for their i-Book to be fixed) from someone I know. It's got great web compatibility, video has been crisp and clear so far, and doesn't seem so determined to be a pain in the ass with cutesey computing crap.

Re: Get an Asus

[(Anonymous)]

forgot to sign the above-

Judy