Proud parents, honored son, and other ramblings...

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On Thursday, we attended our son's year end award's ceremony. We are proud to announce that he received awards for consistent 'A' honor roll and top reader in his class.

To reward his job well done, we purchased him a laptop computer, a Dell Inspiron, which will serve multiple purposes (a travel video player, a gaming system, and a learning tool). He is very proud of his accomplishments, awards, and reward.

Being out of touch with the PC world (as a Mac convert), I am not real sure of our choice. The laptop has an Intel dual-core processor, 3GB of memory; 160GB hard drive, and a 7-in-1 media card reader. Any reviews for this particular system?

One thing for sure is that I had forgotten just how aggravated a person can get over a PC... . It took me three hours to load one new program due to so many quirky things going on with the PC that the Mac automatically compensates for and works out, etc... I am also having trouble getting the PC to read the Apple airport system. It says that it's connected to the system, but then will state that no information is being retrieved, etc. However, I can go online by connecting directly to the DSL line.

Oh well, enough rambling, we are truly proud of our son's accomplishments and he is excited to explore his new educational game, Jump Start 2nd Grade, on the laptop.

God bless,
pa