I should have a son who could do stuff for me. One is an anthropologist, with a degree in English too, and at the moment has 4 jobs and mostly marks papers for professors. One is a supervisor of a French speaking call centre and a whiz on mobile phones, then there's the proverbial black sheep who plays the bagpipes and gets a new job every 6 months which I don't get. He can bulk buy you anything, but I have no need for 400 cell phone towers or 800 copies of AutoCad. Two of my sons went and brought home a christmas tree for me, I didn't want to try to stuff 7 feet of evergreen in my Mini Cooper.

I really think stuffing more memory in that computer would be cheap, and you might find it would last another year.

Tell him the 'experts' all agree, a guy like you needs a quad core music computer to make you very happy. My Dad is 83 and he thinks I'm a computer genius because I can make pictures he gets in emails appear large enough to view.


John Conley
Musica est vita