Electronics and Appliances Make Me Happy
I’m so excited. *squee* In 7-10 business days I will be the proud owner of this Toshiba Satellite Notebook! FINALLY! My old notebook (that Mario sold a few months ago) was also a Toshiba Satellite, but much slower with a lot less features. Mario actually broke and let me order it (on credit, of course). Good thing we paid off 4 of our other credit cards, buahaha.
I actually wanted the other Satellite that had one more Gig of RAM, but it was a measly $40 over my credit limit and I couldn’t get it. The nice lady I spoke to searched for all the features I wanted and found this one for me. The only difference is the 1 gig of RAM, but we can always upgrade up to 4 Gigs later on. And this one is almost $200 cheaper!
But anyway, I’m thrilled!
Another cool thing that happened today: Noelia and Andy gave us a microwave! Woo! We’d been needing a new one for quite some time already, since the one we had was over 8 years old, didn’t have the glass plate at the bottom anymore (Jaylen broke it when he was 3 and I was using a regular plate in its place), and it was the knob kind, not digital, so I could never tell how much I was warming up Alaethia’s food. And the new one’s much bigger than the other one. They didn’t even let us pay them for it. Bless them <3. The rest of today's activities included Mom, Alaethia and me (John stayed with the boys) going to Walmart and getting the 4th of July stuff Mom's contributing and Alaethia's formula and baby food jars. We witnessed a fender-bender in the parking lot. One of the cars was a Stratus like Mary's and it's good to know that if she ever gets in a fender-bender (*knock on wood*), her bumper would pop right back into shape! We also went to H-E-B for the apple pies and ice cream Mario and I are contributing. There, while standing in line to pay Mary's water bill I witnessed a grandmother wailing on her grandson while waiting in line to pay for her groceries. She smacked him on the mouth, pushed him around, shook him...it was awful. And nobody said anything! I would have, had I been much closer to them. The cashiers were a mixture of shocked and embarrassed...they looked so uncomfortable. At one point, the boy got so annoyed by her that he smacked her in the mouth! I’m afraid to know how violent that poor kid is at school. Who knew what he did or said to provoke the grandmother’s behavior, but there was no need for her to treat him that way. Ugh. People like that just irk me.
Anyway, Aly needs attention. Goodnight!
Cool that you’re getting a laptop! And at such good price.
I’d definitely be looking to get one in the future, but I refuse to buy it here in Venezuela, even if I can buy it on credit, etc, they’re so much more expensive. You’d never be able to get a really good one for the price you’re getting yours. I’m complately clueless about them and don’t know what recommended ram, space, etc, is good. I reckon it’d be useful for a lot of things, but the coolest thing to me is being able to browse the internet while laying in bed. 😉 hehe
About how much more are they where you live? I’m not a much of a whiz with laptops, but I know at least 1 Gig of RAM is good (I had 512 on my other one and it ran SO SLOW with Windows Vista–too bad this one comes with it, too!) and at least 100 Gig of space, especially if it’s not going to be your usual computer (I’m still going to do my music downloading and graphic stuff on my Desktop). I’m still not too familiar with CPU’s and all that stuff (I think mine’s a Pentium something-or-other).
And surfing the ‘net while in bed is TOTALLY why I’ve been wanting one for so long!
Haha. I think here a decent one would be like $2200 at least. It would just annoy me to pay that much for it when I know it’s not really worth that in the States. There must be costs to bring it here etc, but still! My boss has one of those MacBooks that run Windows AND Mac, which is so cool. But still, I only really need Windows. Was Vista crap?
OH MY GOD. Wow, that is expensive! You could get one of those new really nice Macbooks for that price here! You should totally save and get one here when you visit the states again. 2,000 for just a decent one is insane!
I didn’t even know the Macbooks run both OS’s! That’s awesome. And Vista…it was okay. I’ve heard lots of programs don’t run well with it, there’s still some bugs since it’s so new and I know for a fact that it runs really slow. It’s got some nice little features though, like sticky notes on your desktop and your favorite feeds and all that are right there for you. I think Macs already had those features.