Ned, thanks. I have looked at Toshiba at Best Buy and at CompUSA. Pricey, for me, equipped as I want it. May go that way.
Bernie, I also looked at HP, at Best Buy. You said, "HP that I liked (17" screen, 10 key pad built in, 160GB HD and 1GB RAM for $750." Some of their sales promos must be store specific. I looked and did not find anything like that kind of power at that price, in the Boise store. I may go back and beat some heads, on that subject!
I also looked at Dell, on line. Anyone have any comments about Dell? ??? I have never owned anything by them.
My son tells me I need to start looking pretty fast. He thinks my MPC will go down, pretty soon. Not sure from one boot to the next that it is going to boot. Sometimes, we really have to coax it!
(Like Control/Alt/Delete, repeatedly, on start up. Mostly, I leave it on if I don't have to reboot for a specific reason.) New problems show up regularly. I'm backing up just about every day! I hate this!
Going camping, first week in September and then as much as possible, till winter. I don't take the computer along, and consequently, don't get mad at it.
Speaking of which, I might change that. I bought Earthmate GPS LT-20 Deluxe, with both Topo USA and Street Atlas USA, a little over a year ago. I loaded it on the computer, (the dying one,) and crashed it. Got it up and running again, but had to uninstall the GPS program. Maybe I'll load it onto the new computer, and take it along.
That way, I can drive myself nuts, even while "getting away from it all!" :
Whadayathinkofthat? ???
Ray D ;D