Ready to Hang Myself

An other laptop rant!

On Friday I called the repair shop to see how far they have gotten with my Acer ( not so ) Aspire 5670 (like they ever would call me!) – Good New! Woot!

It’s working again. Your computer was over heating, which caused all the problems. We cleaned out the whole thing and it’s working again. You can pick it up tomorrow.

Nice! I thought and I was really excited to have my baby back.

The End – Happy End!

Whoops .. totally wrong. I showed up there and the same problems are back. Oh wow, nicely done and yeah of course I am going to pay you 50 Euros for a job well done.

I am heading out now to Sligo (which is over an hour from here) to check out PC-World and Currys (not too excited about them both) to try my luck. My hopes are like = 0!

Buying electronics online in Ireland is not really an option .. crappy websites and poor selection and overpriced products (I am very tempted to link to them!).

If I can’t find anything I am going to order something from Germany.

Best option though would be buying something in the US – Much better prices, due strong Euro. But shipping and a possible paying import custom fee just sounds like too much of pain.

Oh well …

Any recommendation what laptop I should get? And now .. I am not really interested in an Apple

I will keep posted … heading out now into the rain .. huge storm over Ireland with waves up to 14 meters.