Hey, those angsty Dee and Ryo fanfiction stories have nothing on me and my angsty computer love triangle.
The moral of this story is, "Never wait too long to replace your old computer because technology marches on and stuff gets obsolete and then you have to waste lots of time and energy that you'd rather spend researching anime and manga." Surely I'm not the only person in North America who figured this out too late. I'm sure LOTS of other hapless people out there are having the same problem, dammit.