I didn’t even finish the paper, and my eye met the new laptop’s screen. I left it idle on my desk, while the screen saver was running and I started reading a research paper on Haskell. Resolved or not, this left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. I shut it down for 5 minutes, and then booted it up again. I installed Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, etc… I started to use the laptop and it seemed all good, but after an hour or so I noticed that the light on the screen was uneven and it seemed a bit too flickery for my taste. Yesterday night while she was sleeping I started to set it up so that it would be ready for today’s birthday. At this point my wife didn’t know anything about the laptop. Everything was all right, so I carefully stored it in a safe place for a couple of days. I brought it home that night, checked that it was OK, booted it up, installed the OS and surfed for a while. I bought an economical yet decently powerful Acer Aspire 5100 (15.4” CrystalBrite TFT LCD Display, AMD Turion 64 Mobile 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB 5400rpm) on Friday afternoon from the Best Buy at the Markville Mall in Markham, Ontario. What I didn’t know was that Best Buy was going to hijack my plans. But I thought that an affordable laptop for browsing and writing would be an unexpected and very welcomed gift.
NEW YORK BEST BUY SCREEN SAVER MAC PRO
As you may remember from my previous posts, I bought a MacBook Pro for myself just a few weeks ago, so I wasn’t going to go crazy in terms of my budget.
In reality, I wanted to surprise her with a nice laptop. She was probably expecting something along the lines of a case/skin for her iPod Nano. Being a good husband I decided to come up with a nice surprise. This post starts out personal but gets to the interesting part very quickly, so please read on. Best Buy sucks and you shouldn’t shop there.
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