Suggest you take the Dell software

Geoff
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Kiellach" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 10:44 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New laptop purchase


Hello-
We are contemplating purchasing a laptop. I currently have a Gateway 500 PC 
from 1998 and it's getting tired and ornery.  It's been doing some funky 
things lately and we're afraid it's days are numbered.
Since my husband and I are planning to retire shortly and do some traveling, 
we're opting to replace the PC with the laptop. A Dell Inspiron 1505 has 
been recommended. We would like to upgrade to Vista eventually (is Microsoft 
the way to go?). We do e-mailing, word processing, and have many pictures 
that we are currently storing. We'd like to transfer them to CDs, a 
capability that we now lack. In retirement, we may expand our usage of 
computer capabilities.   My husband is slowly increasing his gaming 
expertise.
Also, Dell wants to sell me a program for $56 that supposedly facilitates 
transfer of data from my old PC to the new laptop. Is there a more 
efficient, less expensive way to do that?
Any specifications I should absolutely have? I'm not looking for minimum 
components. We'd like this to be something that will adapt to the 
fast-changing computer world in as much as one can predict today. On the 
other hand, we don't want to be getting frills that we'll never use.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Sharon K.

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