So!
Yesterday I got myself a laptop! A laptop which I am of course currently using. That said it's bigger than I estimated which is nice. My honey-cat's is a 15.6" this is a 16" I figured it'd only be a smidge bigger but it seems much bigger. It's a Toshiba and other than the hard drive I love it. (It's a 5400RPM: but that's okay, I can always buy a replacement). My other problems with it: it's got a fingerprint top (shiny finish), it was a floor model so it has a lot of stickers that are unnecessary, Windows 7 refuses to recognize my old computer so I have to pull information from it onto my honey's laptop which I can then put onto my laptop. (Okay, that's more of a Windows 7 complaint)...
That said it's features rock!
It's got a nVidia GeForce 1GB card! 4GB of ram. 400GB (5400RPM) hard drive. DVD+-RW/etc. Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo Processor (not one of the fastest but one that's not bad). It's got Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Long story short about purchasing it:
1. After discovering that I was lied to by a salesman trying to push their companies warranty for 1/3 of the laptop's price, I found I could afford it.
2. Driving to the nearest location they didn't have it and didn't actually tell me the nearest city it was in but instead gave a generalized area location.
3. Not knowing how to get there I told my mother that I wasn't getting the new laptop I said I was.
4. A few minutes after I got off the phone she called back and offered to drive me to the next nearest location because I "sounded so sad," which was hyper-awesome of her because she lives an hour North of me and then we had to go South when she picked me up and she wasn't going to come visit me this weekend for lack of gas money.
5. We go to Marysville after I find out that it's the closest for the particular store that has this laptop on sale.
6. We arrive and purchase it after almost forty minutes of driving. I took mom and her boyfriend out to lunch as a "Thank you" since it was so nice of them.
There's actually a ton more to the story which is why that was the "short" version.
Anyways, there's going to be a lot of transferring that I have to do, so even though I could be online doing lot's of stuff that I haven't done in a long time I actually won't be....
Ah, the joys of transferring through possibly two other computers.