It appears that I have given myself another reason to be moody about lacking a job, that is lacking money for a new computer.

This computer is old, it is a third-hand laptop that was made to run nothing more than Windows NT (and I'm running XP on it, heheh), with a 20gig harddrive and an unknown RAM size (but apparently this particular laptop typically has a 128-512meg RAM). When looking at computer places, the fact that the laptops there that are considered to be 'low spec' have a 160gig harddrive and a 2gig RAM...that is enough to make one moody about the fact that it is considered low spec yet mine is worse than that...and I cannot even afford it because I lost my job about eight months ago - the cost of one of one of these 'low spec' laptops is the amount of money I manage to scrape together in a month.

This laptop freezes/snails if I have certain programs running too long such aa - firefox, winamp, photoplus, furcadia, cd games, my virus scanner, a chinese instant messenger. I cannot play online games or mmorpgs because the processor is too slow to respond to commands (so I cannot even play flash games on neopets, or run runescape). My wireless card is the most powerful I can get for a laptop and yet it cuts out very frequently though there is nothing wrong with the wireless connection or router. Hehe, yes, I am gabbing on a bit now

Long story short - I need a new computer, can't afford it.