I am so excited right now. I bought my old Gateway laptop almost 3 years ago ( a few months after the launch of Windows Vista) and it has caused me nothing but problems with the hard drive. I purchased the extended warranty from Best Buy (thankfully) and never had to pay for a replacement hard drive.

If you're not familiar with Best Buy's extended warranty program, they offer a "no lemon" policy for their computers. If a computer has to be repaired for the same problem 3 times and it happens a 4th time, they send out the computer to be junked out. After its approved by the main service center, you can go into the store and they will give you a new computer of comparable technology.

Comparable technology doesn't exist in the computer world almost 3 years later. So, basically, the store allowed me to pick out a computer with a price tag of $699 or less for completely free...and all I had to do was buy a new extended warranty! So here's the specs on my computer:

HP Pavilion Entertainment PC Notebook
Model dv7-3065dx

-AMD Turion Ultra Dual Core Mobile Processor M600 (2.4 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache)
-17.3" LED High-Def Widescreen Display
-500 GB (7200 RPM) Hard Drive
-4096MB DDR2 SDRAM
-Blu-Ray ROM with Lightscribe Double Layer Optical Drive
-5-in-1 Digital Media Reader
-ExpressCard/54 PC Card Slot
-ATI Radeon HD 4200 Graphics with 128MB DDR2 Display Cache
-Windows 7 Home Premium
-Webcam
-Altec Lansing SRS Premium Sound Speakers

I've been looking at this computer since Best Buy was selling it for $899. I was so very close to buying this computer because at the time, my old laptop's hard drive had only crashed 2 times (2 times more needed for junk out to happen). I decided to hold off buying it because although I had the money, it wasn't something I needed to buy. Then, my hard drive crashed twice in a span of 2 weeks and when I went to the store today to pick out my new rig, my next computer was still on display, staring me in the face.

So, I am quite the excited dude right now. I have just one question for the PC gamers out there. I am a console gamer, and I always will be primarily. However, there is one game that is coming out in February that I'm going to play, which is Star Trek Online. Based on the specs that I've given above, will this be enough to run the game smoothly (not necessarily on the absolute higest settings)?