{"id":109,"date":"2004-02-19T08:45:59","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T08:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/02\/19\/worlds_best_impulse_buyer\/"},"modified":"2004-02-19T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T08:45:59","slug":"worlds_best_impulse_buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/02\/19\/worlds_best_impulse_buyer\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s Best Impulse Buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I bought two<\/i> laptops on e-bay.
\nI have a friend here in Lennoxville who, now that she’s retired, is getting into the cyberworld. So she asked me to find her a laptop, not too expensive, whose primary functions will be e-mail and surfing.
\nYesterday, I found her machine. Nice little HP, reasonably priced, no bells and whistles, and just enough power to avoid d-o-w-n-l-o-a-d-i-n-g frustrations.
\nThen, since I was in the market<\/a> for my own new machine, I kept looking…<\/p>\n


\nThis morning I am the new owner of a wide-screen!!
\nThe specs (you know you want ’em):
\nMobile AMD Athlon\u2122 XP-M 2200+ Processor with QuantiSpeed\u2122 architecture
\n512 MB DDR
\n15.4″ Widescreen TFT LCD WXGA (1280 x 800 max. resolution)
\n32MB ATI\u00ae RADEON\u2122 IGP Video
\n40 GB HDD
\nDVD\/CD-RW Combo (CD-read 24x; CD-write 24x; CD-rewrite 10x; DVD-read 8x)
\nLi-ion Battery Internal
\n56K* ITU V.92 Fax\/Modem
\n10\/100Mbps built-in Ethernet
\nTouchpad with vertical Scroll Zone
\nAC ’97 Audio, Built-in Stereo Speakers
\n6.5 lbs. with battery
\n3 USB ports, 1 VGA external connector, 1 Parallel Port, 1 S-Video Out, Microphone In, Line Out, PCMCIA Slot (Card Bus type I and type II)
\n1.36″h x 14.0″w x 10.0″d
\nThey’ve also thrown in a few hundred dollars worth of software, none of which will be of any real use to me (AOL? Compuserve? please – they even listed Acrobat Reader) – but it’s the thought that counts.
\nI spent way too many hours on-line yesterday, scoping out other systems, and this one is pretty much identical to those I checked out at Dell, Future Shop, Bureau en Gros and Microbytes. Granted, the HD is only 40 GB, but since my current machine is operating with 10 GB, I’m not complaining.
\nDell wanted close to $3000 (ok, 80 GB HD, 64 MB video, and wireless access, but still<\/i>).
\nBureau en Gros, Future Shop and Microbytes all wanted at least $1900, before taxes and shipping.
\nMy winning bid was $1325.
\nAfter shipping, tax (GST only, since the seller is in Toronto and I’m here), and insurance, we’re still well under $1500.
\nSo I’m a happy girl this morning.
\nI still really, really, really <\/i>want a cigarette \ud83d\ude41 But now I can tell myself that if not for quitting, that widescreen would still be just another listing to pause and drool over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I bought two laptops on e-bay. I have a friend here in Lennoxville who, now that she’s retired, is getting into the cyberworld. So she asked me to find her a laptop, not too expensive, whose primary functions will be e-mail and surfing. Yesterday, I found her machine. Nice little HP, reasonably priced, no … <\/p>\n

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