Cold feet...

[ellenmillion]

I keep getting to the 'REALLY ARE YOU SURE?' screen on the recovery disc and chickening out, even though my computer is nigh un-usable as it is right now. Re-installations are traumatic.

This looks shiny. They carry them locally at Geek City, and I called and talked to the guy there for a while about them; they highly recommend them and are confident it will handle ACAD and CS with no problems at all. I would go buy it right now, except that they want $300 more for it than NewEgg does. I'd pay $50 more to keep my sale local. Maybe even $100 because I'd get it Right Now. But $300... urgh. Really, can't do that.

*sighs*

Okay, reformatting this sucker for now. See you on the other side... I hope.

Eta: Okay... Windows will not reinstall! I am going with 'laptop is borked' and finding my credit card...
Eta2: Windows installed. Updating, installing CS3, Avast and other bare minimum programs. New laptop ordered.

Comments

[redokapi.livejournal.com]

Heh, I worked in IT for awhile and those "are you sure?" screens used to freak me out too. After awhile it became more of a "yes, I'm sure! stop asking me every 3 seconds!" type thing. :)

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

That lappy looks beastly. I is most envious.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Have you asked the Geek City folk if they can match the price--or at least give you a discount--to get your business?

If you walk in with the other place's order page on your phone, they'll know you're not making an idle threat.

[pseudopagan.livejournal.com]

Not to keep tooting my own choice of horns, but the Samsung I linked (this one) is virtually identical to the one you linked above, except it's got a 17.3" screen that'll run at 1600x900 instead of a 15.6" that runs at 1366 x 768. May not seem like much, but my roommate has a 15.6 and I've got a 17.3 and the difference is quite notable.

It's also ~$100 cheaper, probably due to it having a 5400rpm drive instead of 7200rpm, but I poked around some and found folks saying there was no appreciable difference between the drive speeds when using autocad.

[pseudopagan.livejournal.com]

Annnd I just noticed you said you already ordered the other. My bad!

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Heh, no worries! I was willing to pay a little more for the Asus brand and warranty, but I had missed the larger screen... That probably would have won me over. Ah well, too late now!

[pseudopagan.livejournal.com]

I do like Asus. My 24" primary monitor is an Asus and it's good stuff. Samsung is pretty slick though.

Actually, we went and bought a new washer & dryer for our house (we bought a house, whee!) recently, and the one we settled on turned out to be Samsung. Who knew they made washers & dryers? o.O I mean, I guess people knew, but I didn't.