Got a laptop for school, and I love it...well, actually! I kinda hate it >: (

Purchased this on Thursday when BestBuy was still selling it for $550, I'm pretty happy that I urged my mom to go get it THAT day, because right after it immediately jumped back to $700 :D

Anyway, I'm not a Vista girl. I looked for any excuse to downgrade back to XP and that excuse was: NETOWRKING~ Yeah, that wasn't happening. So a format and fresh install later it's found out that Gateway is really pushing Vista on its users by not offering any of the XP drivers on their site. My brother was a saint and he found the graphics and wireless drivers for me, but this morning I tried to load some audio and realized I still didn't have sound drivers :( Both Robert and Rod skidaddled for the day, but not before some effort on Robert's part to find -something-. But alas, he had to leave and I was left to scour countless threads of users on Gateway notebooks in the same predicament as I, though not on the same model number. Finally after two hours I found my driver, and now all I need is...

A new router! Did I mention installing XP didn't solve my networking problem because my router is an old piece of S and drops the entire network's connection when trying to broadcast wirelessly? Tomorrow I'm heading over to Fry's to purchase a new router and hopefully this will be the end of all my hatred and the start of my love affair with my new laptop~<3


-- Teehee