Advice: Take along a geek!
Unless you're totally up on the latest technology both in hardware and software, it's really nice to have with you someone who is. I had done a little shopping on my own after a particularly bad day trying to wrestle the old computer. So I was excited that Steve and Lisa would be visiting us the weekend of July 10-11. I was also pleased when a computer sales clerk approached us at SAM'S Club. He had the look of GEEK all over him. When I asked why some of the outlets in the back of the computer on display had been "sealed" or boarded up, he launched into a reply about incompatibility issues with the accelerated graphics card and alternative ways of achieving the same thing. I was immediately out of my league where Steve asked some follow-up questions that, at least to some degree, wiped the smug look off the young salesman's face.
Steven could see that I was more impressed by big screens than with fast processors which he favored. He recommended a machine that had both. It was also handy having Steve along to help lift the computer into the shopping cart and then into out car. So you'll want a geek who can lift heavy loads.
It sounds like you had the right geek with you.
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