Jeff

I'm looking to buy a condo and I'm curious which loan I'm more likely to get... a $40,000 15 year term, or a $60,000 30 year term? Or is neither realistic? I'm trying to keep my housing costs under $600 per month including taxes and association fees.

I have a Dell Latitude D520. It's a little over a year and a half old. I started noticing something strange going on with my battery... it would discharge normally to about 40% then drop down below 10% instantly. I figured I needed a new battery, so I bought one. The new battery is doing the exact same thing now. To better illustrate what I'm talking about, I logged the battery Discharge Rate, Remaining Capacity, and Voltage while I let it run from 100% charge down below 5% where the status was critical and Windows hibernated.

Here's the graph...

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4269/batterydis...

This is happening with the old battery as well as the brand new battery. As you can see in the graph, the Discharge rate was fairly constant... there's no spike there that would have drained the battery... the capacity just dropped like a rock, from about 40% to 10% then seems to resume normal operation from about 10 to 5%

Any ideas what's going on?