Some Freezing... Continued

Turns out something was VERY wrong with the netbook. It was freezing A LOT. Wireless driver fix didn't work. I tried Windows on it too, it took a couple tries to get Windows installed. The INSTALLER hung. Not only that, but I found a spot on the screen that I'd thought was a bit of dirt was actually a damaged screen, obviously not my fault as the screen had suffered no impacts nor any real chance to actually even get dirty. Just a tiny little hole in the glossy coating of the screen near the top that I had thought was dirt. Boo that. Amazon couldn't replace it, they were out of stock, so I returned it for a hopefully full refund. Amazon theoretically has restocking fees on computers that aren't being exchanged but I was willing to do an exchange and they didn't have any to exchange it for...

After trying to decide what to get to replace it to do my netbook experiment, I got... a similar Dell. Wal-Mart has a brand new version (lower-end) of the same Dell 1012, on sale for $228. Wal-Mart also has a great return policy so I know if I have major issues / constant freezing / etc with it, getting my money back should be no problem. It's a new revision, a made-for-Wal-Mart model with lower end inside guts so hopefully not from the same batch or anything that I had a problem with... I'll keep y'all updated! Mark