July 5, 2013
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…card hunter…
i bought a new laptop. Rather, let me say that the parental unit has bought a new laptop. I simply just took it for my own personal use. Considering the fact that my last laptop is more than sufficient for whatever my parents wish to use it for, they let me choose the laptop that I would want. Actually, the laptop is not the laptop that I truly truly wanted. I limited myself to a certain budget. So after buying the laptop and the warranty (which some people think is just a ripoff) everything came up to 700. btw, these are canadian prices. yes yes, if I went to the U.S, the price would be half of what I paid. Honestly, the samsung series 3 pc I wanted was 299 on the bestbuy website for the U.S and 599 on the canadian one….seriously? that really sucks! (hopefully it’s just the independence day sale?)
my father thinks that what i’ve purchased is expensive. I’ll give him that I could find cheaper. However, unless I choose to buy the laptop that’s used or refurbished, it’ll be a little difficult to purchase the same laptop with my current specs for less than what I paid for. Or maybe I didn’t do enough research, who knows?
Wanna hear about my pc specs? well too bad, i’ll write it down anyways. it’s an acer. yes, roll your eyes all you want. But I’ve had really good luck with acer laptops. the first one I bought which was when I was 18 years old or so is still up and running with minimal problems. A bit slow by today’s standard (since it’s only single core 2.8GHz from what i remember), but other than that, it’s still rather perfect other than tarnished silver coating. The one I bought 3-5 years ago is running very well also. Runs a bit hot, but other than that, it’s been pretty decent too. This one? I expect to last at least the same amount as my last one.
Oh, so yes. This one’s only a quad core A10- 1.6 with turbo of 3.2. has a AMD Radeon 7660G Dedicated graphics (not quite sure if that’s a good thing or not at the moment- I’ve always had integrated ones). Has a 1TB hardrive with 10GB of ram. I’m still wondering what the heck I’ll need 10GB of ram for. Will I be running THAT many programs that it will require me to use up so much ram? Or perhaps the windows 8 os really does require THAT much memory? To my knowledge, this laptop is one of the first gen windows 8 models. I might be wrong. You’d think it would take me a long time to get adjusted….but after 5 mins….I can say I already understand why things are laid out the way they are.
Although it takes me almost no time to get used to a new p.c and new windows o.s, for the life of me, I just can’t get how to work a mac. Does that mean i’m stupid? Or perhaps I just don’t have that mind to understand it? Or is it that i’m just tooo familiar with a windows? I mean, I grew up with windows. Rather, I actually grew up with the D.O.S, but meh.
oh yeah. So I got into the beta of card hunter. have you seen it? It’s dungeons and dragons meets magic: the gathering. I always thought that dnd and mtg were kinda dorky and nerdy….but if that’s the case, that’s what I am! muhahahaha. Don’t think it’s for you? well just watch the trailer, give it a try. it’s free to play. Maybe you’ll find that you actually enjoy it, or perhaps you won’t. other than using time to play, it’s free, so what have you got to lose?
Other than that, no more updates.
Oh yeah, Canada day long weekend was ubber relaxing for me! oh yay!
