Okay, NOW I'M CONFUSED AGAIN.

What does a laptop have to do with a desktop??

If I'm in the kitchen (assuming I just bought a laptop), and Alan is in the computer room on the desktop, and I have a wireless router, which makes MY HOUSE WI-FI, right?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it should NOT matter what operating system either of the two things has. It's only for going on the internet. And if I want to type a letter, than I gather I go into wordpad, or whatever word processing software I have already loaded on my laptop (it probably comes with Microsoft word, right? ).

Oh, I have a question about a printer. My friend across the street is getting a laptop and she'll eventually buy the printer. I gather the printer will be connected to the laptop via a usb port, right?

So what if she wants to sit on the porch with the laptop.

Does she just disconnect the usb thing, and carry the laptop outside?

And when she goes back inside, she just plugs it back in, and that's it? Or do you have to go the whole "set up the printer" thingee every time you reconnect the printer to the laptop again.?

Thanks much.