agree. Nothing gets me madder or faster to getting me angry than "you are just a girrl, what do you know about techie stuff. let me help you spend your money!" I hate guys who want to try to upsell me stuff. I know what I want.

BTW, I'm using my father's last laptop before he died. It's celeron and XP based Toshiba. Screen is still very nice. speed is really lacking. Tried slacko (Linux) and its still slow. Maybe I will upgrade my laptop to something with i7, 12G of DDR3 mem and Terabyte of storage. And it even has touch screen for around $600.00. tempted... Thought about hacking cheap chrome book into a Linux machine but Chrome has limited access and it can be difficult to change OS. And most can not be upgraded.

well. After the furnace replacement three month ago. Our dryer quit. So we bought a floor model that was dented for around half price. Hey, long as it works. Good enough for me and made sure it had valid warranty.

The third thing gone wrong is my ISP provided FiOS modem is shot. This is why I'm on a laptop at Starbucks. Talked to tech at Frontier Comm. At first it was can you do this, do that... After much annoyance and explaining to the "help desk" I asked for level 3 tech support. No can do... WHAT?? well after wasting hour of my time, they are sending a tech out. I've already told them that their MODEM, which they like to call HPNA box (What HPNA Home Phone Network Association product died when 802.11 WiFi standard came to being) died or rather its DNS server app died a horrible death. My VoIP phone with direct IP address has no problem of making connection but when I type something like teamestrogen.com or yahoo.com... It can't get to the internet.

And oh my Prius, during last ice storm, my car slid in my driveway and went bump into my GF's pkup. Fix is going to be $$$$. So I think I will order Tesla model 3 and wait it out with the beaten up prius. Of course I will have it fixed by then, still I'm tired and Prius is starting to annoy me. Model S is too big of a car. My friend had to Tesla-size his garage so his Tesla model S would fit.

I hate spending money... but this laptop is driving me bananas with its slow response. I'm bit spoiled for faster computers.