Oh, huh. Yep. I guess I should take it in. Or wait until it dies and replace my laptop, which is 6+ years old.

I have decided that today will be "shop for a new laptop" day. I don't need anything fancy. I cruise the internet, have a huge iTunes library, and do minor graphics editing. I prefer Windows over Apple.

Every time I shop online I get confused - way too many options. It seems like many of the laptops don't include optical drives. I think I want a BluRay drive.

I'm trying to figure out my minimum requirements.

Well, I don't like to recommend laptops I haven't actually used, so the only one I can suggest is the Thinkpad Edge. It looks like it costs: $642 for i5-3230M processor, 4GB of RAM (as 1 DIMM), 500GB Hard Drive, 24GB Caching Solid State Drive, DVD drive, and the larger battery of the two offered. 14" or 15" is about the same size. Figure another $40 to buy another 4GB of RAM to stick in (you can get already installed for $80, but that's a terrible price.) BlueRay isn't offered, but like I said, I can't really suggest anything else.

I really like mine. Unfortunately they no longer offer the big 9-cell battery though. I usually get 8-10 hours. The newer ones are probably more like 6-8 even with the bigger battery.

Cable cord cut. My TimeWarner box was rebooting over and over and over and I couldn't watch it.

le n, you were awesome helping me survive this last year with them. Thank you.

I am boggled that I haven't had a problem with their internet services. I still have it. Fingers so crossed.

(laughing) we were sisters in misery. Directv has been such a blessing. I ain't gonna lie.

Directv has been such a blessing. I ain't gonna lie.

I might go that direction. It can't be worse. But I am giving up cable for the nonce.

Seriously it's been a bad year.

yep.

give me a holler if you decide. I have some coupons that might get you a good deal if you sign up.

I cut the cord a month ago. We got a Roku and already had Amazon Prime. The Roku really improves the Amazon Prime experience over our old streaming BlueRay player.

I'm almost embarrassed to type this, because issues. But my Galaxy tablet started turning itself off--it had been doing it while asleep which is annoying but not world-ending.

Today it did it three times while I was using it.

Task manager hunt has been slow for the last week. No new software added--in fact, I'd been deleting software instead.

I went to Frys and asked what beside the quadcore made this Samsung so much more expensive than the Tab 3, and oh, did you have the Note 10.1. Answer? "Just the quadcore, and no we only have the note in 8 inches."

While I was reading up on my phone in the parking lot I realised that the more expensive quadcore with the lower Android version WAS THE FUCKING NOTE. But I decided if Best Buy had the same prices, I'd give them my money instead because she'd been so damned stupid.

So I'm holding a Note 10.1--also unlike Frys, BB doesn't have a restocking fee. So I have 15 days to see if I fall in love, otherwise I go back and start looking at the second best Asus and the latest Tab.

Hold me.

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