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So I need a new laptop for school, right. Not so much "need" as I have just been simply wanting an upgrade to a machine with more portable power and perhaps a bit smaller than the 15'' Inspiron I have. Love the system, don't get me wrong. It's just that it's big and bulky and I know there are smaller models out there that offer more power than my four year old system. Also I had to raise my credit because after my car accident almost two years ago. My gap insurance refused to cover the last four thousand on my car. Said that I was charged 199% of what the car was worth and they refused to cover the last four grand on my tab. So there I was, screwed over with my credit taking massive hit after hit while I was out of work for 7 months.
There is a lawsuit against the policea due to this wreck so eventually I'll have cash again. One day.
So me and my girlfriend go to Best Buy, figure we can co-sign together to get credit in my and her name so we can build our credit together because they had previously told me my credit was too in the shambles to do anything with. We get there a little under a month ago and we both sign our names and I'm given a $3,000.00 (three-thousand) credit line and I'm ecstatic.
However before I apply for the credit I'm looking at all the laptops, trying to see if there's one that catches my eye, biggest bang for my buck sort of deal. At this point in time I was looking for a machine to do what I needed and wanted it to do. For the last four years I've been running 1.5ghz processor with only a gig of RAM and a 40gig hard drive with Windows XP to do all my video gaming and a 120gig for my Linux drive which was used almost exclusively.
After playing around with the new open displays (not actually having the systems password protected so you can honestly get a decent check out on the system it self) and figuring out which system had what I decided I wanted to purchase the Toshiba Satellite 305s. It was slim, considerably more light weight than my Dell, had 3 gigs of RAM, 250gig hard drive and a 2.0ghz processor. All was good in the land. Except for the fact that the price tag had literally been ripped off from under the system and I had no way of telling how much it was going to cost me. I decided that the only obvious course of action was to flag down a sales person to get the price. That's where dick headery started to come in.
So after an annoying search to find a sales rep who isn't already helping someone, I find a lone geek squad agent. I figure they would know just as much as anyone else and if at the very least be able to tell me what the price is by logging into the computer literally right in front of the laptop it self and scan the tag with the nifty price scanner. So after I spot my potential help I walk over and can barely get the question out of my mouth before he literally shoves past me saying "I'll be with you in a second, I need to help someone else." Fine. Whatever. Guy was a geek squad retard and needed to go help someone get child porn off their hard drive.
After being blown off me and my girlfriend walk over to the huge customer care center and apply for a credit card to get the ball rolling. Figuring the system wasn't going to be that expensive after comparing it to others, we go back to it after being approved for credit and check a few more things out. Talking to another woman who was busy but able to at least tell me the price and type of hard drive the laptop used, I pick up another hard drive because I just like having two separate hard drives for my operating systems unless I'm running a 500gig+ drive.
More on this exciting story tomorrow!
Now that we have the new hard drive in hand
