Laptop

So for some reason I have been without a computer for about 8 months now. Ill be the first one to tell you that this is a hard task to accomplish in 2007 almost 2008. Finally last weekend I bit the bullet and went out and spent a whopping $1,000.00 on a brand new HP laptop. I take the laptop home and open it up only to notice that the left click button is off of the laptop, so I put it back on. Then I notice that one of the little rubber protector things is off (you know the little shitty things they put on so the screen doesn't hit the body too hard when you close it). So I put that back in, mind you in took about 2 hours, those things are not made to be easy to put in! All is well I'm thinking, I start screwing around with my laptop, trying to get stupid Vista off when all of a sudden the computer shuts off on me. Upon investigation I notice that the battery has come out of its bay. Then after more careful investigation I notice that the battery doesn't even lock into place properly.

So I drive all the way back to Best Buy, this isn't like Vegas or Reno where Best Buy is just around the corner, in Portland its a good 30 minute drive to the nearest Best Buy. I get there and after about 20minutes of waiting for "Geek Squad" to look over my laptop they say that its ok for the customer service people to give me a new laptop. So I finally have a computer and so far aside from the problems with the first one I'm pretty happy with it. Plus it has these sweet looking designs on it that make it a "Special Edition" piece of art. Hopefully I don't start seeing everyone with one of these from here on out as I would be extremely pissed. "Special Edition" should mean that there is a limited amount released and that there is something fairly special about them. Which in this case, the fact that its at the $1,0000.00 price range and having 2GB of ram and a 250GB hard drive is quite special in and of it's self. Other than that theres not to many special features about it as far as physical specs go. Aesthetically it is rather "special". Anyways I now have a computer and best of all since I bought it in Oregon...there was no sales tax, so even though it was on sale for $100 off, for me it was like it was $173.75 off (7.375% sales tax in Nevada $1000.00 x 7.375% = $73.75 tax + $100.00 manufactures instant rebate = $173.75 off). Anyways, check it out and tell me what you think.