Sticker Shock

It finally happened. My computer died. It had been difficult charging it for some time now and I wasn't sure if it was the battery or the port where you plug in the cable. So, when I couldn't get it to charge at all and was completely without a system, because the battery was so dead that I couldn't even boot it up enough for it to tell me that it was dead, I decided that it was time to take it to the Geek Squad.
Now, I hate Best Buy. The sales staff is rude, condisending, bunch of stupid geeks in the the bad way. I love the show Chuck and would love to find someone who works at the Geek Squad that is like Chuck. But, alas, it doesn't happen. I did however get a lovely girl who was very smart and nice. She took my laptop, did a few things and declared that there was nothing they could do for me. The system was dead.
So, needless to say, I needed to get a new computer. So, I went to the computer section and I was under sticker shock. It's been about five years since I bought my laptop and I paid enough for it. I was surprised that prices really haven't come down that much.
Well, I bought an Emachine which if I am not mistaken is an IBM product. It's going to be fine for what I need to do. Plus I have learned my lesson as I will need to pay someone to extract my hard drive from the other system and down load it to my system or jump drive or something. I will not be storing too much on this system. Everything will be on jump drives. Not going to loose everything again!
I have music, pictures, word docs... so much stuff.
So this is the first blog from the new system. It's fine so far.