Sherrel, after much trial and error, I found a Dell 15-5000 touch screen laptop that works like I think a laptop should. I generally only use it to play train simulator on, and some other Windows-only applications, but it's fast, doesn't crash or auto-restore like yours, has good battery life, and was about a quarter the cost of the other one I sent you the link for. Best Buy should have those, as well.
As for the expense of an apple computer, we decided the much lower stress level that resulted from using one offset the higher initial cost. We've had my wife's for three years now, with zero problems, and zero trips to the geeks. I've had them and used them more and more since Vista came out. The initial learning curve takes about a week of figuring out how to make it do what you want it to, in many cases, it is much simpler than what you have now.
