Blinky-FSO
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Well, I went to Office Max this afternoon to pick up a shipping box and walked by the laptop and tablet counter. After looking at all the tablets I decided I would be better off with a Windows system rather than an Android or whatever Kindle uses to promote Amazon products. They had a Dell tablet for $200 with Win8. Looking at the laptops, I spotted an Asus 17" with Win8, an Intel processor of some sort, 4GB Ram and a 500GB hard drive. Not that I know what any of that means other than more RAM runs sloppy code quicker and a bigger hard drive seems to impress the women.
It was on sale at $249, down from $379. It was the demo and the only one they had left. I got another 20% off and, after they restored the desk top configuration to new, walked out for $210.94 including sales tax.
The last time I set up a new pc at home was six or seven years ago and it took hours. This thing configured itself in about five minutes and that included the time it took me to find the password to the wifi. When I went to load the printer, it had already done it.
So, I have a learning curve for Win8 but so far, so good.
Good Hunting
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