I enjoyed having a laptop when I bought mine back in the late 1990s. I was able to upgrade it as far as Win98 before it balked at the OS software. It is now a non-connected toy in my teenage son's room. He uses it for word processing and playing solitaire. I won't buy a laptop with my own money again because they are too hard to work on. I think my next computer from work will be a laptop so I can use the software for the office, and I'll get a docking station here, but they can do the maintenance and upkeep.

Give me a desktop where I can get in and easily change out things if I need to.

John, that is quite an impressive summary of the format/installation process. When I help any of my elderly neighbors with a computer or dialup problem I usually know I'm going to need a few hours because invariably I have to plan to download then install what they need, even if I don't need to do anything like reinstall an OS. When I can I download and burn files to a CD at my house (via a DSL connection) and take it with me.

The GUI screens we see when we do the work are much easier to use, and there is not much need to remember DOS commands. But it is still very time consuming.

SRS