Had enough

Sounds like an absolutely generic dream.

Well, if it works, it's a good generic idea, no? And that's what matters.

My point is that you really didn't know what you wanted. A laptop is for portability and convenience and not running fancy looking animations and/or games. Hence it should be cheap and basic.

You tried to buy a powerful one (even though you don't play games). Along comes a netbook and makes your laptop look like a fatty.

Desktop for everything and netbook when you are outside is the sensible path.

But then, you don't play games so your netbook can serve all your computing requirements.

Well, actually, I'm not dissatisfied with the machine. It's more that I'm getting very unhappy with Dell Customer Service.

And from what I know, everybody else is as bad or worse.