Rebates

October 14th, 2006, 11:08 am

Just give me the damn discount when I buy the stupid thing and don’t make me waste a good amount of time filling out the stupid forms, cutting out barcodes and running to the post office just to get $30 6-8 weeks from now.

New New Laptop

October 3rd, 2006, 07:42 pm

Yesterday the CD/DVD drive on my laptop died so I took it back today and swapped it for a new one. I get the joys of setting it all up again :(

The good news is now I get $150 rebate as well as the original $30 rebate that I got when I first purchased it. So it will now be $150 cheaper than I originally thought! Yay! So it was a good thing the CD/DVD drive died.

New Laptop

October 1st, 2006, 02:09 pm

I decided to spend all of my money and bought a laptop yesterday. It is a Compaq Presario V3010US. The specs:

  • AMD Turion™ 64 X2 TL-50 (1.6GHz)
  • 512 MB Memory (upto 4GB)
  • 100 GB (5400 rpm) hard drive
  • 8x DVD±R/RW drive with Double layer support and Light Scribe
  • 802.11b/g wireless
  • 10/100/1000mb ethernet
  • NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 video card
  • 14.1 in wide screen with Brightview or whatever that is called, 1280 x 800 Resolution
  • Windows XP Home Edition with SP2

That pretty much covers the basics. I want to upgrade the memory to atleast a GB, get a wireless mouse (I don’t like touchpads) and possibly a cooling pad. This will have to wait until my next paycheck though. I’m completely out of money

It looks very pretty. I like it a lot so far. I hope I don’t have any problems with it. It didn’t come with any system restore disks. You’re suppose to make those yourself and it was telling me it was going to take 15 CDs. Screw that. I can buy the discs online for about $16 so I think I’ll do that.