New Laptop!

I'm writing this on my brand-new laptop! I decided sometime in the summer that it was probably time to update, since I got mine in 2003. A new laptop seemed like a good way to spend my graduation money from the Cooks, but since I wasn't working over the summer I had to wait for some good cash flow before I could make the purchase. That turned out just fine, because it gave us time to look. Mark actually did most of the looking, and he picked out this one for me. It had some features I was looking for, like a built-in webcam and a number pad. Plus, it was on sale for a great price in August when he found it. I couldn't afford it yet, and I was checking the price about once a week. Sure enough, it went back up to the original price ($100 more). Thankfully, buy the time I was ready to buy, it was back on sale! With Mark's Amazon prime, I got it in two days! Although all we've done so far is install anti-virus and a trial office suite, I can certainly tell a difference with the speed. It's great! Of course, it has Windows 7, which I haven't used much prior to this, so I'll have a little learning to do. Mark's planning to get a new desktop, too, but his will be a little pricer, so we're waiting a little longer. (And, his current computer isn't 7 years old already). I guess I might have also been dragging my feet on making my upgrade because Pop-pop bought me my first laptop before I started college. It was pretty top-of-the-line, and it's met my needs for a long time. I think, though, that he would have wanted me to get the new one. I guess having an emotional attachment to a laptop isn't too strange, right?