Thank you all for your replies. My first computer was a Compaq. I only had it for a year when my nephew opened an e-mail from someone he didn't know and it had a virus that killed my comp. So his mother, who is an electrical engineer, had rebuilt one for us to replace it. It has lasted about three years and now it's done. I'm thinking about asking my sister-in-law to build us one and ship it to us and we'll just pay her whatever she has in it. That seems to be the cheapest and best route to take. Although I do like the cost of "the poor man's internet". I would go with a desktop instead of a laptop.