Compocalypse '09: The Repricening

[cleolinda]

If you are a salesguy at the Best Buy off 280 (Birmingham) who looks a touch like James McAvoy and helped a girl in a red v-neck who charged in and dragged you all around the store chattering away about what "people on the internet" told her about various computer brands:

Hi... sorry about that?

So... yeah. Apparently my will to deal with life returned. I marched in there with my printed-out specs ("I WANT THIS ONE. WHERE IS THIS ONE. HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE THIS ONE") and my carefully prepared questions ("OKAY SO WHAT DOES IT NOT COME WITH") and my Microsoft Office XP disk ("CAN I PUT THIS ON A COMPUTER RUNNING VISTA BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR IT AGAIN I THINK THAT IS REALLY STUPID I MEAN WHO WANTS TO DO THAT") and trooped through the store asking about service agreements and externals and UPSes and headsets (for podcasting!) with the intent of finding out how bad the total damage will be when I go yet again, tomorrow, third day in a row, and actually make purchases. I mean, yes, I went to newegg.com, but apparently the Best Buy price ($509) is as good as anyone else's, and yes, I am buying it off the shelf, and yes, someone somewhere probably could build this and transfer my data more cheaply, but you know what? I will PAY THE STORE to MAKE MY LIFE BETTER at this point. I DO NOT CARE. MAKE THIS COMPUTER-NOT-HAVING GO AWAY.

(Salesguy also said, "Yeah... I have a Gateway. DO NOT EVER GET A GATEWAY," which made me laugh.)

So basically, I'm getting the Asus. And don't bother trying to talk me out of it, because she already has a name.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

Comments

Names, my electronics haz them.

[daumari.livejournal.com]

My lovely Macbook Pro is Cadsuane (awesomesauce character from The Wheel of Time), and my external is Eowyn, since she'll ride to save the day in case of an emergency.

[ilanka.livejournal.com]

Good luck today!

Asus is a good brand; we LOVE our little laptop. It is a trooper and has never caused us a problem [A LAPTOP. HAS NOT CAUSED A PROBLEM! Hell must be a bit chilly right now...]

[chrysoula.livejournal.com]

Yay paying organizations to make life better! I support this! There's a peace of mind that comes from knowing that if something breaks or doesn't work, you have already paid for somebody to allocate time to, no, seriously, make it work for reals.

[s5g.livejournal.com]

I'm late to the posts, and you've already picked your computer, and this would be too expensive anyway, but I just thought I'd come in and dance about waving the 'I <3 Macs' flag around a little.

I have been able to successful convert exactly NO ONE I KNOW into the Mac camp, because they are all frustratingly skeptical. Oh, no, wait, maybe there was one person..

ONE! YAY!

Anyway, back to my corner;)

[jabberwockypie.livejournal.com]

Please tell me you didn't name your new computer Bella? That'd just be asking for trouble.

[honesttoblog.livejournal.com]

Hey Cleo not sure if you saw this but here is a photo of the Alice action figure for New Moon :)

http://www.newmoonmovie.org/2009/07/new-edward-bella-swan-alice-action-figures-for-new-moon/

[glimmerata.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!! That Edward is like the Incredible Twinkling Hulk.

[melody0030.livejournal.com]

ahahahahahha you're hilarious XD

"the new phone book is here!"

[suzeclues12.livejournal.com]

I have visions of you doing the finger/keyboard equivalent of "frolicing amongst the flowers" with the new lap top. Remember, you have to sing "tra-la-la" while doing so. Enjoy!

(goes back to take FINAL final for the summer with no further internet distractions - ooh, what's that?)

[nc-bookworm.livejournal.com]

Yay for new computer!

And I checked today and the two people who were copying your Twilight M15M have been removed. Yay!

Just from personal experience...

[greenfairy-87.livejournal.com]

I've had someone custom-make my computer when I moved to college, and it's never failed. I call it DAS UBER COMPUTER 2000, which is the cheesiest name I could think of. My parents' first computer was a Gateway Windows 98, and needless to say it became an epic fail and we had to get a new one a few years down. When I found out it crashed I was in a sort of catatonic state since all the files were lost. Luckily this was before I had a lot of great pictures and really important documents there and my parents hardly used it. In completely unrelated news, Bill and Sookie are engaged!

Your new computer...

[eleanor-panno.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, what's her name?! (your computer)

PS
I sound like a twit but I have just figured out how to use this livejournal thingy and I've got that technological high and I've just read through Secret Life of Dolls and I must say you are a VERY good and funny writer.

Re: Your new computer...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. : )

[headphone.livejournal.com]

Whoa, you met a computer geek who looks like James McEvoy?
ME WANT.
Plus, I kinda have a weakness for dudes in best buy shirts.