After weeks of struggling with my old Dell notebook, I finally succumbed and picked up a new pc. It's really nothing special. It's a Compaq Presario 2500, not state of the art or anything. It doesn’t have a few things that I really needed. First of all, it only cost 800 bucks including shipping (I bought it on Ubid). Second it has an integrated firewire port so that I can easily use my external hard drive. Third, it has 512 MB of RAM and it handles massive Photoshop documents with ease. It doesn't have a floppy drive which makes it difficult to get files off my notebook onto Lilla's computer which has Internet access. All in all I'm happy to have it and be up and running again.