Laptops?, Warning: There may be italics involved. Options

[Twilight Wandere...]

Okay, so here's the deal. I finally got my computer back. Wonderfuls, right? Not really. It's still not fixed, and it still has that god awful Vista still on it.

Well, you found an XP CD while going through your stuff the other day! Why not just use that, right? No. Your father reminds you it's the boot leg copy he gave you that killed your computer thus requiring you to get Vista in the first place.

Well crud. You don't know what to do. He suggests going to a site that sounds extremely phony and looking to see how much Windows 7 is so you can upgrade you computer. But oh. It may not actually be Vista that's the problem, so you'd lose all your data for nothing.

Okay dad. You're really on my poop list right now.

So mom says. Why spend your money fixing something that is broken? Just buy a new laptop. You won't want a desktop when you go off to college in a year anyway.

Oh yeah, I'm doing that, aren't I? Thanks mom. You're not on my poop list.

So anyway. The entire point of that little story was to introduce y'all to why I'm looking at laptops. It's not just for show, I'd like to ask you tech savvy people about what you think is best. ;D

What I'm planning to run on it that I know of are GIMP and Sims 3 with one little expansion pack, maybe more if I get any.

And pictures. Loads and loads of pictures.

This here is my only candidate thus far. I want a laptop basically that can run those applications above and still have a little memory left, if possible. As for money issues, I'll be saving up for this, and my mom said she'll back me up $100.

So, questions, comments, suggestions, etc. I can has them here please.

[Twilight Wandere...]

Has it ever gotten slow when you've had too many things open?


Do you think GIMP would run?


Urm... Yeah, that may be it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif) I'm not looking for a high end, top of the line laptop, which is part of the reason I'm so reluctant. I just want something that'll run GIMP and Sims 3 without, like... Killing itself. AND I WANT SOUND DANGIT.


Yeah, um... X'D My computer is so busted that if I enable the sound, it crashes. A lot. I have to go into the Control Panel, click Device Manager, scroll down to sound, right click it, and "disable" it.


Right now, if someone wanted to show me a video or song, I'd have to save it to my Ipod and watch/listen to it on that. :|


I have no idea what the cause is, and quite frankly, I don't care anymore. I need a laptop before I go off to college in a year anyway. Why not.