Kyle has been looking into getting me a new computer for a while now. My old computer has been slowly falling apart. The ‘o’ button is loose, the track pad hasn’t worked for months, the battery only lasts for about half an hour while unplugged, and the whole laptop keeps over heating. He kept asking my opinion on certain things, but honestly they all look pretty much the same to me. I don’t know much about all the technicalities of the different options out there. Eventually we settled on a nice new computer and it arrived yesterday! It has a much larger hard drive than my old computer. That was important to me considering one of the most important things I use my computer for is scanning and cropping family history pictures and storing home videos that I have collected from either VHS or our digital video cameras over the years. Pictures and video takes up a LOT of space. 🙂 My new computer also has a cd/dvd drive. Which is awesome because I will still be able to burn cds of pictures or dvds of the home videos to be able to share them with the rest of my family. The battery on my new computer can last hours before I have to recharge it, and it has a web cam thingy in it. The only thing, is it’s got a newer version of windows than my old computer. So I have to figure out where to find all of my stuff. Also I don’t like the version of excel that is part of this newer version of windows. I can’t figure out how to do all the things that I used to know how to do. But hey, I have LOTS of space on the hard drive to fill with more scans of pictures. 🙂