Mel, I always feel good after reading your learning posts. It's so refreshing to read about some-one who faces each new challenge with enthusiasm.

I wanted to tell you that I'm using Vista on my new laptop after years of XP. I'd heard so many bad stories that I thought I'd never get it.... but I did. It was so much easier than I'd been led to believe, and I really don't mind it at all. I still have XP on my desk top computer, and I swap between XP on that and Vista on my laptop without any problems.

Good luck in whatever you choose, but the laptop with all that memory sure does sound good. I couldn't afford it when I bought this one but I must look at buying more memory soon.