Leave of absence

[owl]

Our computer is broken. I was deleting some adware and I had to restart it into Safe mode, and after I restarted it back into noral mode Norton Antivirus wouldn't turn on Autoprotect and the internet wouldn't work. It dials up okay but it won't open any pages and after receiving a few bytes of data it won't send or receive anything more.

Does anyone have advice on new computers? What's the best make? Is XP a more crappy or less crappy OS than Millenium Edition? Is it worth £110 to upgrade with Office Basic Edition (Word, Outlook and Excel), or could you cope with Works 7.0 (ie does it have good spreadsheet and word processing programs)?

I won't be around much on LiveJournal or any sites, so if you don't see me that's why.

Comments

[snarkel.livejournal.com]

I could be a smartass and just tell you to get a Mac, if you want. (FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!! (http://www.apple.com/macmini/)) But the software tends to be pricier, there's not Mac tech on every corner, etc etc etc.

XP is fine for an MS product: ME is the crap. Definitely get XP. Office doesn't seem worth the cash to me, but I only use it to make address labels, so...

[owl]

I'm a Linux gal if I were to go for any OS in the world, but I'll let my university pay for it :)