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dysonrules) wrote2011-05-29 07:39 am
dysonrules) wrote2011-05-29 07:39 am
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NEW STUFF IS NEW!
Since I was going into COMPLETE AND UTTER withdrawal after three whole days without a laptop in my bed (honestly, having to get OUT of bed at 4am to check email was absolute HELL) and since I had Friday off I went to Best Buy looking for a VERY SPECIFIC laptop that I had found on their website.
So of course the bastards did not have it in the store. In fact, they had NONE of that brand in the store. What the actual fuck? *shakes head* I could have ordered it, but that would have involved WAITING and I'm not good at that. Plus I wanted to get it in the store so I could FEEL it. That's very important - what if I hated the keyboard? I'll be typing on it 18 hours a day, sometimes. The keypad has to ROCK.
With my pouty face of doom in place, I decided to peruse the models they did have. WTF is up with all the HPs? *rolls eyes* I did not really look at those because I'm not terribly happy with my desktop and it's neverending programs running in the background that keeps my fan kicking on 97% of the time and will probably burn out my computer shortly after the extended warranty expires. ANYWAY.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DEAL WITH THE TEXTURED TOUCHPADS? D: D: D: Whose brilliant fucking idea is that? Some of them were so rough I know I would likely have blisters by the end of the first day. DO. NOT. WANT. I'm not a huge fan of using a mouse, mainly because I drag this puppy everywhere with me and a mouse is just another item to stuff in the bag (and smash) and I've grown used to using the touchpad and I LIKE IT, OKAY?
So my research consisted of:
1) Finding the appropriate minimum level of power. I need something that can run multiple browsers simultaneously, and also run Photoshop. Sometimes at the same time. There were quite a few units with POWAH, so that was good.
2) Finding an excellent keypad, as noted above. That was tougher. Some of them were CLICKY. Some had keys too close together, and I also really like having a full number pad. Sometimes I actually do accounting and using the QWERTY numbers is annoying.
3) Finding a touchpad that doesn't fill me with RAEG. That turned out to be the toughest one of all. I really liked a couple of the Dells, but their touchpads were akin to rubbing your fingers over sandpaper. WHYYYYYYY? One of them had an actual mesh-grid feel. It should have said "GUARANTEED TO RUB YOUR FINGER RAW AFTER THE FIRST HOUR!" I just honestly do not understand why the manufacturers though textured touchpads were a good idea. Can anyone out there enlighten me? Because I hate that.
SO, by the end of an hour or two of meandering around the store and going back and forth, I ended up with THIS:
Isn't he lovely? His name is Brent. XD He is a Lenovo, which has AMAZING reviews, so that was a bonus. I LOVE the stainless look, which is so smooooooth I end up petting it many times a day. :D The keypad is BLISS. It's quiet and feels great on the fingers. It has a full number pad, which I haven't used yet and even though the keyboard is a bit off-center because of it, it really took me no time to get used to it. The screen is GINORMOUS compared to Dillon's and the picture quality is stunning. Windows 7 is also fabulous so far. I might have to upgrade Christian the Desktop to get rid of the detestable Vista, although I'll probably take it to someone to have that done because upgrading any sort of Windows has been an impossible task in my past history.
As a bonus, it weighs about HALF what my precious Dillon did, so WOOT! Easier to carry! *thumbs way up*
Also, it came in at $200 less than I was planning to spend on the one I wanted, so I bought my daughter a Toshiba netbook, which is SO FREAKING ADORABLE. She named it Xander and it has already become permanently attached to her arms. XD She starts high school this fall ( D: ) so she'll need it for school. (Yeah, right, she needs it for constant access to Facebook, who are we kidding?)
I also bought all sorts of STUFF because I was in supershopper mode. (laptop cooling pad, two wireless mice, an illuminated keyboard for Christian, Windows 7 upgrade for the netbook, and a Zune for my poor son who was wailing that he has NO technology, which is true, the poor thing doesn't even have a phone because he is a girl-magnet already and would use too many minutes per month chatting to the little darlings who insist on calling him a billion times a day). Dear Microsoft, setting up the Zune was a time-consuming nightmare and I am not technologically stupid, but FUCK ME THAT WAS A BITCH. So much NO LOVE, Dyson. Dear IRS, thank you for correcting my tax return with the note 'You are doing it wrong, have an even bigger refund' and enabling me to get STUFF! Much love, Dyson.
MANY THANKS FOR THE AWESOME BIRTHDAY PRESSIES, I AM COMPILING THEM INTO A GINORMOUS THANK YOU POST WITH LINKS SO YOU CAN ALL SHARE THE AMAZINGNESS THAT IS MY FLIST! :D :D :D
Now back to our regularly schedule porn-writing.
So of course the bastards did not have it in the store. In fact, they had NONE of that brand in the store. What the actual fuck? *shakes head* I could have ordered it, but that would have involved WAITING and I'm not good at that. Plus I wanted to get it in the store so I could FEEL it. That's very important - what if I hated the keyboard? I'll be typing on it 18 hours a day, sometimes. The keypad has to ROCK.
With my pouty face of doom in place, I decided to peruse the models they did have. WTF is up with all the HPs? *rolls eyes* I did not really look at those because I'm not terribly happy with my desktop and it's neverending programs running in the background that keeps my fan kicking on 97% of the time and will probably burn out my computer shortly after the extended warranty expires. ANYWAY.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DEAL WITH THE TEXTURED TOUCHPADS? D: D: D: Whose brilliant fucking idea is that? Some of them were so rough I know I would likely have blisters by the end of the first day. DO. NOT. WANT. I'm not a huge fan of using a mouse, mainly because I drag this puppy everywhere with me and a mouse is just another item to stuff in the bag (and smash) and I've grown used to using the touchpad and I LIKE IT, OKAY?
So my research consisted of:
1) Finding the appropriate minimum level of power. I need something that can run multiple browsers simultaneously, and also run Photoshop. Sometimes at the same time. There were quite a few units with POWAH, so that was good.
2) Finding an excellent keypad, as noted above. That was tougher. Some of them were CLICKY. Some had keys too close together, and I also really like having a full number pad. Sometimes I actually do accounting and using the QWERTY numbers is annoying.
3) Finding a touchpad that doesn't fill me with RAEG. That turned out to be the toughest one of all. I really liked a couple of the Dells, but their touchpads were akin to rubbing your fingers over sandpaper. WHYYYYYYY? One of them had an actual mesh-grid feel. It should have said "GUARANTEED TO RUB YOUR FINGER RAW AFTER THE FIRST HOUR!" I just honestly do not understand why the manufacturers though textured touchpads were a good idea. Can anyone out there enlighten me? Because I hate that.
SO, by the end of an hour or two of meandering around the store and going back and forth, I ended up with THIS:
Isn't he lovely? His name is Brent. XD He is a Lenovo, which has AMAZING reviews, so that was a bonus. I LOVE the stainless look, which is so smooooooth I end up petting it many times a day. :D The keypad is BLISS. It's quiet and feels great on the fingers. It has a full number pad, which I haven't used yet and even though the keyboard is a bit off-center because of it, it really took me no time to get used to it. The screen is GINORMOUS compared to Dillon's and the picture quality is stunning. Windows 7 is also fabulous so far. I might have to upgrade Christian the Desktop to get rid of the detestable Vista, although I'll probably take it to someone to have that done because upgrading any sort of Windows has been an impossible task in my past history.
As a bonus, it weighs about HALF what my precious Dillon did, so WOOT! Easier to carry! *thumbs way up*
Also, it came in at $200 less than I was planning to spend on the one I wanted, so I bought my daughter a Toshiba netbook, which is SO FREAKING ADORABLE. She named it Xander and it has already become permanently attached to her arms. XD She starts high school this fall ( D: ) so she'll need it for school. (Yeah, right, she needs it for constant access to Facebook, who are we kidding?)
I also bought all sorts of STUFF because I was in supershopper mode. (laptop cooling pad, two wireless mice, an illuminated keyboard for Christian, Windows 7 upgrade for the netbook, and a Zune for my poor son who was wailing that he has NO technology, which is true, the poor thing doesn't even have a phone because he is a girl-magnet already and would use too many minutes per month chatting to the little darlings who insist on calling him a billion times a day). Dear Microsoft, setting up the Zune was a time-consuming nightmare and I am not technologically stupid, but FUCK ME THAT WAS A BITCH. So much NO LOVE, Dyson. Dear IRS, thank you for correcting my tax return with the note 'You are doing it wrong, have an even bigger refund' and enabling me to get STUFF! Much love, Dyson.
MANY THANKS FOR THE AWESOME BIRTHDAY PRESSIES, I AM COMPILING THEM INTO A GINORMOUS THANK YOU POST WITH LINKS SO YOU CAN ALL SHARE THE AMAZINGNESS THAT IS MY FLIST! :D :D :D
Now back to our regularly schedule porn-writing.