A new computer!!! I have been without my own computer now for about 2 years. I suppose I had a company laptop when I worked for the prison, but no internet. I still don't have internet, but I believe I will be hooked up by June. My Dell is sitting next to me at work in boxes. (I still can't rely on getting any mail at my New Orleans address) Looks like a big game of Age of Empires III tonight. My niece and nephew gave that game to me for Christmas thinking, "everybody has a computer, right?" Anyway, I didn't go top of the line this time (actually nowhere near it), but I still like it. Cost me (roughly)$75 a month for 18 months/ no interest. $1,208. Here are the stats.

XPS 400 Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB)

Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs

Monitors 19 inch Ultrasharp™ 1907FP Digital Flat Panel

Video Cards 256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800

Hard Drives 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition

Network Interface Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet

Single Drive: 16x DVD+/-RW with double layer write capability

Dell AS501 10W Flat Panel Attached Spkrs for UltraSharp™ Flat Panels

Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic (D), w/Dolby® Digital 5.1