But there WERE problems. The first was, I didn't want the computer this company wanted to sell me (a Dell). So I went to Best Buy and the salesman sold (suckered?) me on buying an Acer. Hey, I have an Acer monitor and it had treated me well, but the thing never worked well--and the computer courses the "retraining" company offered came with FLOPPY DISCS and I ended up losing hundreds of dollars paying taxes, etc., useless training materials, and a bummer of a computer, so the whole thing was a big debacle.
The Acer had a crappy keyboard (flat--not unlike the keyboard that came with my iMac, which is why I don't use IT more often), but worse than that, the stupid thing had a cursor problem. I'll be typing along and the next thing I know the cursor is several lines above where it should be, typing along in what I've already written. This is not a good thing when your job is writing.
Back in May, I saw my friend Leann Sweeney's Sony computer. I liked the keyboard. She loves the thing (after having a lemon of a Dell that never worked right from day one), and let me try it out. Since then, I've been back to Best Buy twice and tested it. I decided that when the October Royalty Check comes, I'm going to get a Sony of my owny.
Not a week ago, the Acer developed a new problem. It had never before had a screen saver, but now, suddenly, it did. And the screen saver is a commercial FOR A NEW ACER COMPUTER.
It knows its time is just about up, and it wants to be replaced by a brother Acer computer.
Uh-uh! No way no how. But man, is it creepy to have this commercial playing every time I walk away from the computer.
What weirdness has visited you lately?
