OHMYGODIHAVETOCLEANMYSCREEN.

This is why I didn't want a touchscreen. Okay, I didn't want a touchscreen because I am ocd about smudges, but I'd trained myself to live with the smudges. UNTIL NOW.

And Gar, I'm not a pro in that area by any means, and I think the graphic designer you hire can tell you how they want to receive things. But in general I'd assume that they'd need a completely clean file, with nothing in it except the text they will use. Anything else you put in, unless it's absolutely necessary to avoid confusion, they'll just have to take out again.

Not comparable, I know, but when the SO gives me article text for the newsletter, I want it all straight, cut & pasteable, so I can flow it into the relevant containers. It's then my job to set page divisions and deal with where the images fall to make a good document. All other elements like sidebars, photo captions, headlines, etc. I want separately.

I have a friends who wants input on buying a new PC he does digital photos and video, and wants to stay with HP, as he has had good luck in the past.

He gave me these:

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to look at.

I am leaning towards the one on the right, but the one on the left seems to have more expandable graphics ram by taking some form regular ram, but has a smaller dedicated amount.

Any advice?

Dedicated video RAM has much faster access to the video processor than shared RAM and greatly increases performance, typically much more so than havin additional RAM available over a slower pipeline.

Piggybacking onto the ebook question:

I have a Nook Color. I haven't investigated, but I am limited to only buying books from B&Noble?

All hail Project Gutenberg! I just downloaded all of Sherlock Holmes (except for the very last book), since I don't think I've actually read any except maybe Hound a long time ago. The complete Shakespeare is nigh useless since there's no Table of Contents, sadly, but I got that too. Oh, I can use the search to find plays, I guess. I also got the complete Poe. And some other stuff. And a friend let me know that Cory Doctorow offers his ebooks for free, so I downloaded Little Brother.

So we'll see how/when/if I actually go about reading this business.

I'm made rather dizzy by the idea of having all of Twain, all the Oz books, all Agatha Christie, and, which is probably only important to me, all the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet books.

Erin, you'll have to side load them, but if someone sells without DRM, you can buy epub elsewhere and read it on your nook. A lot of the smaller publishers, and I think All Romance Ebooks/Omnilit sell without DRM, as well as many books on Fictionwise.

Edit to add to the library book discussion, when I mentioned Aldiko is legal to read library books on, and you can return it directly from there too.

They didn't seem to have a lot of Agatha Christie. Nothing I'd heard of.

Side load?