As you probably recall, the laptop that Heather had when we got married is in the process of dying.
I have been watching for sales on laptops fairly closely, and finally found one. Amazon had an Acer Aspire 5251 for under $400 shipped.
I realize Acer isn’t really on the good end of the reliability spectrum that I linked before, but when you consider price and features in the equation, I felt like a little failure risk was acceptable.
I was going to post a picture, but … well you know what a laptop looks like.
We have actually had the laptop for a few days now, but I just finally finished doing all the setup today. Acer didn’t load the machine down with as many junk applications as HP did, but there was still a little more junk installed than I would like.
This is my first brush with Windows 7. I have absolutely zero complaints so far. The old HP laptop was painfully slow to do basically anything, despite having a passably beefy CPU under the hood (it was on the low end of desktop-replacement-class laptops, with the heft to prove it) This new machine is wonderfully snappy!
We haven’t had a chance to use it much, but so far the slightly smaller screen doesn’t seem to be that noticeable.
I think we are going to enjoy the fact that the battery life is longer than 15 minutes. Granted, that isn’t really HP’s fault so much as what happens to battery packs when they age, but it sill makes the new laptop seem pretty nice.
I wish I could think of more to say… I am really excited about having it, but laptops do end up being somewhat generic. … “Yay a computer, it does computer-type things!”
Hope you are enjoying your weekend!
-Jordan
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