elanya

Tonight is Exia night. Tomorrow I have to leave extra early to go out to the airport. My grandmother is picking me up at the airport. Apart from that, I have *no* idea what is going on. I was hoping my dad would e-mail me back but I haven't heard anything! :( I have to call him tonight, one way or another. It would help if I actually had a phone -_- I may resolve that issue today though - I am about to go out and try to buy one, whee!

I am trying to figure out what to do about games and such while I am (even more) on the road. I figure that if I am not actually in F'ton, it will probably be decently easy to arrange. If I am in F'ton by friday, then I can play FK at cat's computer, since we are doing solos, if that is okay with Cat. I will have to see about Exia. At somepoint, hopefully I will get my very own shiny computer. I'm still looking for advice on laptops in particular.

I've been told not to get Dells, because people just don't like they. I know that they are not easily upgradeable, but I didn't really think that most laptops were upgradeable at all, so is this really an issue? Is there some other reason that I should not get one? I have heard that their customer servise is terrible, but also that it is good - it probably depends as much on the agent as anything. Anyone else want to weigh in? I'm kind of leaning this way because it is an easy option.

Here is what I am looking for in a laptop:

I want it to be something I can take pretty much anywhere (internationally) and still use.
It needs to be able to handle my (fairly basic) softwaree need - firefox, itunes, mIRC, Word, some other fairly small programs.
I want it to have a fairly large hard drive (At least 80 gigs).
I want to be able to watch and burn dvds and cds (fairly straightforward these days).

So I don't need anything stupid fancy. A big screen would be nice but isn't *essential*. I do't need a super huge graphics card, but good sound quality would be a boon.

So what do my experts think?