Woo Hoo! I gotta new toy (or two)!!

Ok, friends of mine have known for MONTHS that my laptop had major issues... and last week, my students were startled when they heard what sounded like a handful of small pebbles being dropped into a blender - on high speed! Honestly, I was worried. Our high school Prom pictures were on that CD... and I was afraid they were gone. So, after that experience PLUS two floppy disks getting STUCK in my floppy drive, which required me to power down, remove the floppy drive... and take the *(#%&# thing apart... in class... I decided "that was the FINAL assault."

Since patience is not (nor ever has been) one of my virtues, I walked into CompUSA and picked up a snazzy Toshiba laptop (hey, I've had three or four Toshibas over the years, and they have all been incredibly reliable machines - including the one that I accidently DROVE over (and which still works fine... for a Pentium 120 or something like that). So, the Gateway Solo 9550 is being passed down to my daughter - maybe it just hates me). There's even a 666 in it's serial code, so that should tell us something! Anyway, I'll let a repairperson take a look at before I pass it down since I don't want it to "get my kid."

Anyway, I came so darned close to getting the new MacBook (I am SICK to death of Windows, instability/security issues, blah, blah, blah... and the new MacBook CAN read PC programs and files (and will allow a dual boot operating system), but since ALL programs are not entirely 100% universal, and the MacBook is not guaranteed to run everything that I hope to be working on this summer... here I am with another PC. If you have a BETTER recommendation than this lovely Toshiba Satellite P105 Series, I'd be happy to hear about it before a return is out of the question.

The only complaints that I really have so far are:

1. Bluetooth is NOT standard. I'll need to use an adaptor (but I already had one because the Gateway didn't have BlueTooth either);
2. The keyboard is a little "off-center" but, hey, I now have a numeric keypad, which is really handy since I am a teacher... grade entry should be a snap!

Well, time for me to get back to work. Playing on this thing is much too fun (and distracting as all get-out). While I was at it (and since I was already being BAD... I nabbed an IPOD, too. Gawd. Couldn't "just say no." I work hard for the money... but I'm worth it!"