New Toy

My laptop died a month ago while I was on vacation. It is a few years
old so I knew that would eventually happen. I don't have any
information on it that is not backed up somewhere else so I never was
overly worried. I still was very careful with it and nothing bad ever
happened, except for a can of diet Sprite I spilled on the keypad
once. My luck was that the soda had no sugar and the machine came back
from Dell a few days later working like before.
The one thing that I only did on the laptop was my finances. I did
regular back-ups though, but where are they? On the laptop. Not very
smart.
Since my return I have been trying to find out what is wrong but keep
on getting the "blue screen of death" no matter what I do. No online
forum, no support chat have been able to help me. I didn't want to
take it to be repaired and have to pay the price for a new computer.
Well yesterday I got so frustrated that I went to the store and bought
a MacBook Pro. I was going to wait until my birthday next March but
figured I would just give myself an early present. The machine is
absolutely beautiful. I don't think that anybody can beat Apple when
it comes to aesthetics or usability. Is the stiff price tag worth it?
Well I guess that is why I live in California and not in a small town
in Nebraska. We have to pay for what we truly want.