i need a new one desperately, too. mine works okay but it's just shotty and if i'm in court and it does something weird i FREAK out. i think mine is about 5 years old, too. the kicker is when we started looking at them, i realized that you can't buy a new laptop with windows XP...you have to get 7 or vista. well, my software for work only works with XP. i am NOT buying new software just because i can't get XP!!!! i refuse to. it's such BS....why should i stop using something that works just fine and that i paid $1,700 for (the software)? so my wonderful husband found a LOADED refurbished dell inspiron that has NO operating system on it for $489!!!!

we're getting it directly from dell and we bought the one-year warranty just because it's refurbished. it should be here next week. we have XP so ray will load that on there. he manages over 100 computers every day so i'm VERY thankful i have him to manage mine! we've bought refurbs before. ray's mac is a refurb and it's been great. anyway, i hear ya about having to buy a new computer every 5 years....it's ridiculous!
oh, and i LOVE the reasoning that you had to buy a new computer to do TR updates!