Hometown Computer

My last vista machine said goodbye this morning, when it was introduced to a cup of coffee by my 18 month old son. Needless to say, they didn’t take to each other very well.

I rushed to the local Walmart, where I knew they had a Compaq computer for $348. They were out. They were also out of the Toshiba for $398. One of the helpful associates was on the phone with another Walmart, checking their stock, when another one remembered that they had an e-Machine laptop on sale for $298. This was not on display, but they had a few behind the counter. I bought it.

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, 250GB hard drive, 3 GB RAM, Intel processor, and a DVD drive. My wife wanted it to be able to go online. This will certainly work. Goodbye Windows Vista. We hardly knew thee.

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