I guess 4 years is my norm for updating my blog, I can't believe I've had this Gateway laptop for 4 years already, odd, it still runs everything out at the highest settings. I guess it pays to buy the best hardware at the time that you can afford, I did it with the assumption I wouldn't have to upgrade for that much longer and I was obviously right. I bought a 1.86 ghz laptop for my niece going off to college over a year ago for $239, it was refurbished but with a 90 day warranty, it's been my experience that usually if something is going to go wrong with electronics it's gonna happen pretty soon. As with my Gateway within I think it was about a month after I bought it, new, not refurbished or used, the mobo and cam went out. I don't know if the cam shorted the mobo or the mobo knocked the cam out but either way I sent it back to the factory and they replaced everything and shipped it back no charge, they had even mailed me a shipping label so I didn't have to pay to send it to them. But it proved my point, at least to myself if no one else about electronics that are going to fail do it fast, barring aged use of course. The replaced mobo and cam haave been doing fine for well over 3 years now. I just bought 8 oldish ps3 games for $102 with free shipping, skyrim being the newest, black ops 1 being the oldest I cared about. God of war 1 was on it but paired with GoW2 on the same disc. I never cared for that game so I'll be reselling that and the GoW 3 as a package deal. I might try out GoW3 just to see if it's any better than 1. Believe it or not that's about all that's new in 4 years. Sucks to be me.