hello, the machine is only 3 years old,yes i did destroy all the data on it after i formatted.i still have the larger drive but it won't read it. last night a neighbor gave me a windows 2000 disc and i formatted the drive again and it worked;it saw the full capacity of the drive and is ready to use, however when i try to bring the second drive with 225 + gigs of data on it it will not see it no matter how i switch things around bios won't read it, so i took it out, the drive i have working is set to master and is the only drive in the pc but bios says it is a secondary slave drive but it is on the primary ide channel and set to master!!everything in bios is set to auto detect drives,but as soon as i connect the other drive as a slave drive and reboot, the computer freezes and gets stuck on the post screen and hangs.funny thing is when i take that drive and put it in the hard drive enclosure that converts regular drives to use with usb and plug it into the computer i am on right now and reboot, windows comes up and says : found new hardware,mass storage usb device,your hardware is installed and ready to use,it even gives me a new drive letter,shows the drive as a western digital drive but... when i click on the drive letter it says please insert a disk into drive j....hmmm

I am using a navy blue colored, matte finish mousepad for this Logitec optical wireless mouse. It seems to work fine on regular screens but when I get over to my game, it is like it is floating and not accurate. I was just wondering why it would act like that. My AVG scans daily and I havn't had any issues.

Each tower has a field of service. Think of it as a defined circle with the tower at the hub. If you are in the circle service is historically as advertised. If you are in an area where the circles overlap service can be outstanding. If you are outside the circles it does not mean you will not get service, just a reduced service. All that being said, I do agree the engineers who configure the system do not focus at the service during peak demands, but rather static demands. My 3G out here in rural America drops significantly from the morning to the evening. It's all about money. Foliage from your trees may or may not be effecting your reception. Previously speaking with my system's engineers on the issue, height should not be an issue with 3G. Remember, it's actually a cellphone network. You may have a concern created by the lay-of-the land between your home, and the target tower. A hill, rise, cliff, land contour etc. may be effecting it. DA

Thanks everyone. To tell you a little more, I no longer have a desktop and use a laptop for everything. My I've had 2 touchscreen laptops, so I have a keyboard for typing and use the touchscreen for navigating, editing and things you might use a mouse or the touchpad for. My son has left his personal laptop with me to use while he's been working, so I am trying the Mac without a touchscreen. I do find it easy to type on and like that. I am not finding myself using the touch bar for the most part. I do find myself touching the screen to try to scroll up or other things I would do so quickly before. I'm not ready to throw it out the window, so I guess I might adjust. I do not like to type on the touchscreen. No. I did that for a day or two on the laptop once the keyboard started dying and I figured I had that end around -- but it drove me crazy. I couldn't even see what I was typing if it was anything more than a short line or two. It was short lived anyway -- it disappeared and now just has a ghost -- just a line to show where the top edge should be. I miss it only because there is a laptop sitting idle over there and I hope I got everything backed up because I don't now that I will have any access to it. My boys both have ipads and use them for a variety of things - a lot of music support. The youngest got his because it was the preferred way to have his college choir sheet music and he could use it for textbooks and class materials in other classes and have so much less to carry around. The oldest got his when he was talking about getting one and I gave him the one I had and just wasn't using. Though I have considered the ipad pro with keyboard as an option now. I think the comment that change is hard sums it up. I will need to make some changes no matter what I decide, but I'm nowhere near as frustrated with this Mac as I was with WIndows 8 when that first came out. That is encouraging.