When are you going to do another post, PayPerQ?

That’s a very good question. Soon. Very soon. Oh, wait, this is one right now, isn’t it?

Several weeks ago I got a new Dell laptop. Still with the XP operating system, because I wanted the memory for apps that I believe Vista would have hogged and because I had heard all the stories about incompatibilities. Even so, I decided to double the RAM shortly after the system arrived, from 1 GB to 2 GB.

Of course, the laptop’s price dropped another $100 or so right after I got it… Dell declined to give me a rebate but did give me a coupon.

I’ve installed a bunch of new software (new to me anyway), including various browsers in addition to the familiar Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, and another I had started using more recently, K-Meleon. More soon on the browsers and other software. I’m particularly happy about one of the browsers I discovered, but a couple others are also doing a thing or two that I am glad to see them doing. Though Firefox gets the most press as an alternative to IE, seems many more innovative browsers have been popping up over the last few years than I realized.