Well as of today I'm 27 and boy dose it suck getting old D=

Anyways aside from being mostly unactive here and on FA I've been pintching my pennies and managing to get most all of the holidays tooking care of. All that's left is for my own personal christmas that comes the fallowing month. I've still been working on my art but mostly just practice and fine tunning my skills a bit. Not gonna make any promises since I've failed to keep the ones I've tried setting in the past but I'll try to get something final done eventually once I'm up and running fully.

And for anyone who may not know (or didn't read my last journal) my laptop has been suffering from issues with it's montior hazing over into white then going black. Still unsure of what the problem could be but I'm 100% sure it's no virus and has nothing to do with the harddrive since I can still use it just fine as long as I use my Cintiq 15X as my main monitor... the down side however is I can no longer calibrate the Cintiq properly =S which is pissing me off a bit to say the least I'm assuming my laptop's problem could lay in the battery or there may be a short in the screen's wireing. Either way I'm using my income tax to get a new pc and also to fix my laptop up. I'd also like to get a tablet for on the go stuff so that's pretty much gonna be my own Christmas.

So with that said anyone got some PC suggestions? I'm hoping to get something with at least a quadcore and 8 giigs of ram. I'd like something that's good for a lot of photo and video editing that won't break the bank and I'm not a PC gamer so hopefully I won't need too much.

I'm also looking to get either a iPad 4th gen or the Galaxy Note 10.1 but still not quiet sure which one I'll pick though =/ Suggestions?