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10 Working Days!
Sep. 3rd, 2007 11:43 pmI brought my laptop!
The specs I listed before, and I decided on the Green with webcam. I also brought a second power cable on a very clever suggestion.
It should take 10 working days to get here, and I asked the lady if she could influence its priority at all and she said she would mark it as a high priority order. Nice. :D
I'm getting a free Bag with it, too. Backpack. I figure since it's apparently going to be quite heavy it'd be better than a satchel, not to mention less conspicuous and less obviously laptop-containing. Oh yeah and free RAM to the value of 1.5 New Zealands. (See, it's a new take on the joke.)
It ended up costing me $2084.44 including the second cable. Free Shipping, and stuff. And that includes an insurance plan thing that I don't know if I mentioned before. I think I'm going to insure it with RAC for 2 years as well, so that if it gets stolen I won't have to worry. I got a quote for them and it's heaps cheaper to do than I had expected - just under $130 per year. And that's with them knowing about my status as a dodgy student, hehe.
So thanks to everyone who offered me advice and suggestions! :) I feel pretty confident that this has been a great decision.
I'm planning on going in to South Fremantle to photograph my site for studio on Wednesday at about 12, would anyone be interested? I'm not going to go before 12 but I can go after (my lecture is at 2) so maybe that would help more people come along? *grins winningly*
Since some people *cough*Bean*cough* have complained that my entries are tl;dr material, I'm going to cut the rest to entice you, dear reader, into my schpeil of madness and report-writing procrastination.
( Idril, I knew you well )
( Names in an actual shortlist, not a ridiculously long ramble )
This next one is stupidly long. For me. So that's... pretty long.
But it does feature Tolkien-lore pretty heavily.
( Names for the laptop? )
Yeah I'm done. Prz votez for me names? *puppy eyes* Preeeeez!
Btw, logic behind location = Valinor:
Post-movies, Middle-Earth is New Zealand.
Valinor is a land to the West of Middle-Earth.
Australia is a land to the West of New Zealand.
Ta-da!
Therefore Australia wins despite lack of awesome movies, because we are the immortal, eternal home of the Vala and the Elves, the land which knows no sorrow.
Edit:
It's not that I have doubts about the green, it's just that I'm not sure how dirty laptops get. Am I better off calling up and changing my order to a black or a blue? Or even white?
I've been told of concerns with the white getting dirty, but would that just be fingerprints?
If you're going to comment on this one please do so ASAP because if I'm going to make a change I have to do it by 5pm EST tomorrow :)
I had to call them anyway - I forgot to ask them to include the remote control (but only if it's free, hehe)
Thanks!
The specs I listed before, and I decided on the Green with webcam. I also brought a second power cable on a very clever suggestion.
It should take 10 working days to get here, and I asked the lady if she could influence its priority at all and she said she would mark it as a high priority order. Nice. :D
I'm getting a free Bag with it, too. Backpack. I figure since it's apparently going to be quite heavy it'd be better than a satchel, not to mention less conspicuous and less obviously laptop-containing. Oh yeah and free RAM to the value of 1.5 New Zealands. (See, it's a new take on the joke.)
It ended up costing me $2084.44 including the second cable. Free Shipping, and stuff. And that includes an insurance plan thing that I don't know if I mentioned before. I think I'm going to insure it with RAC for 2 years as well, so that if it gets stolen I won't have to worry. I got a quote for them and it's heaps cheaper to do than I had expected - just under $130 per year. And that's with them knowing about my status as a dodgy student, hehe.
So thanks to everyone who offered me advice and suggestions! :) I feel pretty confident that this has been a great decision.
I'm planning on going in to South Fremantle to photograph my site for studio on Wednesday at about 12, would anyone be interested? I'm not going to go before 12 but I can go after (my lecture is at 2) so maybe that would help more people come along? *grins winningly*
Since some people *cough*Bean*cough* have complained that my entries are tl;dr material, I'm going to cut the rest to entice you, dear reader, into my schpeil of madness and report-writing procrastination.
( Idril, I knew you well )
( Names in an actual shortlist, not a ridiculously long ramble )
This next one is stupidly long. For me. So that's... pretty long.
But it does feature Tolkien-lore pretty heavily.
( Names for the laptop? )
Yeah I'm done. Prz votez for me names? *puppy eyes* Preeeeez!
Btw, logic behind location = Valinor:
Post-movies, Middle-Earth is New Zealand.
Valinor is a land to the West of Middle-Earth.
Australia is a land to the West of New Zealand.
Ta-da!
Therefore Australia wins despite lack of awesome movies, because we are the immortal, eternal home of the Vala and the Elves, the land which knows no sorrow.
Edit:
It's not that I have doubts about the green, it's just that I'm not sure how dirty laptops get. Am I better off calling up and changing my order to a black or a blue? Or even white?
I've been told of concerns with the white getting dirty, but would that just be fingerprints?
If you're going to comment on this one please do so ASAP because if I'm going to make a change I have to do it by 5pm EST tomorrow :)
I had to call them anyway - I forgot to ask them to include the remote control (but only if it's free, hehe)
Thanks!
