Hi
yeah jumping around and cursing- well tottering round and cursing.
under most circumstances the laptop is ok I don't play games and suprisingly enough the laptop is a lot faster than my 'old' desktop. mainly it takes up a hell of a lot less space (leaves more room for keeping instruments!)but I rarely need a lot of speed or masses of memory so it's ok. Thanks for everyone's comments-since being aware of the 'thumb' issue my cursor has stopped doing the fandango.
oldfogie