Almost all the bricks in my junk pile are Maxtor, and Seagate seems to have become them by buying them.

You have two choices in hard drives: "Western Digital" and "Other". You are playing Russian Roulette with your data if you choose "other".

LEDs and CFLs are child's play if you want to stick it to the electric company. You need nuclear light bulbs!

Grandma has done fine this far without a damn computer. Do not complicate her life! You are delivering her into the hands of Nigerian scammers and every other kind of con man. Send the computer back. If you will not because she can't hear on the phone any more, and you think email is the answer, at least Vista has big icons she can actually see on a 1280x1024 flat panel, but get a dual core CPU, and all the ram it will hold, or the slowness will make her think it is broken. And for God's sake, turn off UAC or she will be too afraid to say yes to anything, and will get absolutely nothing done. Not even email.

Kids and grandkids foisting computers on seniors are NOT doing them a favor.

They hate being called martians. Their proper name is the Zhti Ti Kofft. http://www.uncoveror.com/zhtitikofft.htm http://www.uncoveror.com/icegeysers.htm