I hung around this group for about a year while I gamed on a laptop I bought at Wal-Mart before I saved up enough to build the rig I wanted around February this year. Had I known then what I know now, the $500 I spent on that laptop would have gone a long way toward building this rig.
And yes, I know I need to clean off my desk,
I've got about 5 more feet of desk to the right of my PC where I've got the cordless phone base, our printer, another PC I'm building (as parts arrive) for my daughter, and a bunch of paperwork and mail I haven't sorted through yet.