CompUSSR has always had a bad reputation: [link]

I like the "True Story!" note....

I don't have any love for CompUSA but it is kinda sad to see them go. They were one of the first big computer resellers. Originally they were called CompWarehouse or something like that. I remember going to the one in San Diego in the late 80's.

So my MacBook started doing this thing where sometimes the display flickers. I'm pretty sure it's the backlight that's actually flickering. It tends to happen when the display dims itself automatically after a period of non-use.

Any ideas? My guess is hardware-related. (Boo!)

eta: I mean my MacBook, not iBook. Which makes a difference, as the iBook did have that screen defect that was subject to the Apple recall thingie....

I don't have any love for CompUSA but it is kinda sad to see them go.

We've got a MicroCenter in Chicago where I tend to do all my non-Apple Store shopping. I went to the CompUSA store in downtown Chicago when they were having their going-out-of-business sale a while ago, but nothing jumped out at me that I had to buy....

I feel sorry about CompUSA in the sense that they were the first place you could get any kind of hardware and software back when nobody thought that anyone but geeks would have a home computer. I think they made their own bed, though.

Yeah, they really sucked, especially after the first few years. I just remember making treks up to their story in Kearny Mesa in 1988 as a total computer geek and loving the handful of places that dealt with this kind of stuff. At the time I was working for Egghead Software, another company that has long since passed.

I have a question that needs the hivemind to help me come up with a solution.

Beau and I are AT&T wireless customers. Don't laugh. Beau has been talking up a fucking storm and we only have 120 minutes (give or take) between now and the 25th. That is not going to work given the time of year.

I figure I have only a few options including the ones below that I've thought of but I would appreciate any additional suggestions. What I would like is to expand our plan by about 400-500 minutes. But AT&T wireless will not do that for us until the 26th (when our month starts over).

I can think of the following as options:

1) that I get Beau a phone card and he uses a landline for calls (especially when he travels)

2) that I add a 3rd line to my wireless acct for 30 days and he use that phone for at least 2 weeks, then I cancel that acct.

The real problem (IMO) is that I will have to restrict my calls in either case because we have so few minutes. I do talk less on the phone, so I might be able to make do with 120 minutes, but I would love a little more flexibility. Maybe I need to add a 3rd and 4th line (on a separate family plan) to the acct.

I'd rather not juggle weird telephone numbers, but if I have to save $$, I will.

Please note: any overage on my plan is $.45 a minute.

LeN, that's a shame, dang. I'd probably go for the calling card, but then, I hardly ever talk on the phone.

I'm surprised you don't have a plan that lets you talk to other customers on the same network/top people you choose/whatever for "free" (no minutes).

oh we do.

apparently all of his friends are not on at&t...

ask if they will pro-rate the half month so you can ramp up now.