Quote - For $600 you can have a very decent desktop computer.

I want more than a "decent" machine.  I want something that is more than what I need currently, so that I can "grow" into it and not have to look to upgrading memory or hard drive etc in a year or two.

I want a really good 3D graphic card with OpenGL (my 5 year old desktop has a graphic card with OpenGL, but my newer laptop doesn't... go figure that one,  LOL), lots of memory and a ton of hard drive space. I'm tired of struggling to recover hard drive space.  I also want something that is fast because I really lack patience and I'm sure my neighbours are tired of hearing me cursing because things take so long, lol.  Plus I want a CD/DVD burner.

All that plus factor in higher prices because I'm in Canada  plus 14% sales tax, and that equals much more than $600.00.

I haven't  calmed down enough to write up a letter to Dell yet, but within the next week I should be calm enough to write them a letter and demand that they cover the laptop under warranty considering it blew up shortly after the warranty expired. 

As for keeping anything from my desktop, maybe the memory cards and cd burner, but nothing else. 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi