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. 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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