computer bits and pieces
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Calgary, 2002.05.28
Today I went to a retail computer outfit here in town called CompuSmart. I've dealt with them in the past (when I bought a PC for my now ex, about three years ago), and things went well enough at that time that when I decided to look into laptops for an upcoming contract gig (that I'm hoping to land) I checked out their site. Now the web site lists quite a number of models as 'in stock', and I made a trip just to go check them out. But it turns out that 'in stock' means 'in a warehouse somewhere in the country, and it will take several days to even deliver a model'. They had nothing in their line of 'corporate' models available at all; just cutesy crap from HP with translucent keyboards.