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Urbana, Illinois, United States
Thirty-one-year-old gay guy blogging for blog's sake.

2010-03-01

My new Toshiba computer

Yay. I'm pretty satisfied, and happy, right now. Yesterday when I got home from school I knew my computer wouldn't arrive at the house until after 3pm. So I hopped onto Kevin's computer and screwed off for a while. As I'm randomly surfing the interwebz, I hear the UPS truck drive away. Then I realize I subconsciously heard a really light knock at the front door. OMG! Getting back to the UPS personnel: I never understood why the delivery people just don't...I don't know...ring the goddamn doorbell. I think they think that no one is home during normal working hours -- and that is a logical assumption -- but it wouldn't hurt them to simply reach up and press a little button located next to our door. Really...

Alas, My computer is there on the door step. I quickly picked it up and brought it inside. I've never owned a new computer before so I couldn't wait to open the box.

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I begin to open the Amazon shipping box. The excitement is building!
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I remove the packing. Ooh, pretty....
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The box is free of the box!
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Opening the computer box...
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The computer is free of the box.
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Screen Condom.
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The touch-pad is the weirdest piece of hardware on my computer. It almost looks like it was sprayed on top of the outer shell. Spooky.
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A naked computer not yet turned-on.
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And it blends!
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Kevin's dinner
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I'm actually pretty satisfied with my computer. Unfortunately the built-in speakers are atrocious. They positively suck. The sounds that comes out of them is sub-par, I mean I might as well be listening to ear-buds. There is also a minor design flaw: There aren't any USB ports on the back of the laptop. Also, the DC-in port is located on the right side of the laptop -- next to the USB ports. It just seems sloppy to me to have these ports on either side of the laptop, considering protruding cords takes up works space on desks. Other than that the computer gets a 90% out of 100%.

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