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Well, I will take advantage of that. Dust and GT have been helping too. This is my first crack at a laptop. They can have this lousy touchpad. April told me to get a mouse too. Consider it done as soon as I get to BB tomorrow morning. Maybe I'll try downloading Chrome tonight. IE is just horrible! Slow as molasses. Thanks Chimps.

Mouse, you want a smaller palm sized one. Either MS or Logitech. Laser technology.. Usually between $25 and 40.
 

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It's not a Laser, but it's a good mouse. We use some of them for our Laptop users at work. Get it!



Chrome: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/

Thanks bud. I see I can get the M325 (Laser) for $5 more. Is it worth it? The M525 is RF (you're right, it's not laser). Will I need a mouse pad with either of these?

Thanks for the Chrome link. This touch pad is abhorrent!
 

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It's not a Laser, but it's a good mouse. We use some of them for our Laptop users at work. Get it!



Chrome: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/

Thanks bud. I see I can get the M325 (Laser) for $5 more. Is it worth it? The M525 is RF (you're right, it's not laser). Will I need a mouse pad with either of these?

Thanks for the Chrome link. This touch pad is abhorrent!
 

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Thanks bud. I see I can get the M325 (Laser) for $5 more. Is it worth it? The M525 is RF (you're right, it's not laser). Will I need a mouse pad with either of these?

Thanks for the Chrome link. This touch pad is abhorrent!

See which one fits your hand better and get it. Generally speaking, you should not need a mouse pad with either of those.
 

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Is the cost of the battery prohibitive?

No. It's just a PITA when the battery dies in the middle of doing something (game) and you can't do a thing. At first it's like, did my computer freeze? Then it's, well ....! Go find a couple of batteries. Irritating and I was going through enough of them that I would actually remember the last time I changed them. LOL
 

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I'm so used to using my fingers on the screen with the iPad, I was looking at my sister's laptop and trying to scroll.....on her screen......which is NOT a touch screen :facepalm: No booze was involved so I have no excuse for that one! :lol:

Well, I'll tell you, they can stuff that touchpad up their .... That thing is utterly worthless. I'm hooking up a mouse on this thing ASAP. I'd rather they not put a touchpad on the thing and just give us a mouse instead. If I had to use that pad they'd be throwing me in the booby hatch by noon.
 

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Well, I'll tell you, they can stuff that touchpad up their .... That thing is utterly worthless. I'm hooking up a mouse on this thing ASAP. I'd rather they not put a touchpad on the thing and just give us a mouse instead. If I had to use that pad they'd be throwing me in the booby hatch by noon.

You do get used to it. Took me a bit though. :)
 

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I see on my laptop they rent Office ($100/month). Whatever happened to the days you just downloaded it for one set fee?

You might want to consider LibreOffice (forked from OpenOffice). From their site, "You can download, install and distribute LibreOffice freely, with no fear of copyright infringement."

It's an open source suite that is compatible with MS Office and runs on multiple OSen. I haven't needed to keep up with Office products these past few years, so I don't know if they're 100% compatible today. Should be fine for most features if not for the fanciest of layouts & such.
 
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