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So my brother just talked me into buying this instead of this which was the one I wanted and still want, kind of. Because it's smaller and prettier and had a bigger freaking harddrive.

But. There is reason to this madness. Apparently the Dell is now marked end of line (possibly this is why I was having such ridiculous trouble getting mine from Dell; they could've just mentioned this in one of those unhelpful 'help' emails) and as such has come down from 699.99 to 669.99 as clearance. Which, very nice except my brother can't get his 10% staff discount on clearance stuff, so it would actually be £670 for me. So, that's kind of a lot of money and yeah I was going to spend £640 anyway but that was getting my perfect custom designed purple laptop. Paying more for the second-best option, not so good.

*moment to mourn the purple*

Anyway, the Acer dropped from £699.99 down to £599.99 but because it's not clearance, my brother still gets 10% off that so £540 and that's a big difference. Like, it makes up for everything I've spent this month that I shouldn't have and then some. And the laptop I'm on right now is an Acer and is still working pretty much fine despite me literally pounding my fist on it repeatedly in frustration at its ancientness these last few months. Plus my brother seems to think it's made of AWESOME (I don't know why I keep being swayed by my brother thinking things are awesome, because we usually have different ideas on what constitutes awesome that Do Not Match AT All but I still let him talk me into things. Stupid salesperson training) and said I could upgrade the spec to match the Dell for less than I'd pay for the Dell, if I want and if I didn't have Australia looming over my much-depleted bank account... but I do and £130 is a lot of money to me right now. That pretty much covers my Wii with the £50 my 'rents are putting toward it as a birthday present.

But it's freaking huge. 16" screen and you know, I want this laptop to write on, that's the entire, total, whole, utter *point* of getting it. I don't know how I just let my brother talk me into buying a laptop designed for watching movies when I just want to use it to get over a three-year writer's block.

And I'm really mourning that Dell. Yes they're assholes with no customer service worth speaking of but their laptops are the prettiest. I like pretty. I'm shallow like that.

16" goddamn inches. I'm going to regret this. I really am. I'm already bitter toward this laptop for Not Being A Purple Dell; the last thing I need is more faults to stack up against it and that's a whole 16" worth of faults. Okay so I'm not carrying it around the country with me but I'm more worried about being able to carry it down the stairs.

I've got until tomorrow lunchtime before I can transfer the money anyway, so I'll sleep on it. I wish I could see the damn thing first because I don't even have time to get to a computer shop in the next two weeks, unless maybe we can find one in Manchester. Why couldn't Dell have just given me my beautiful, perfect, purple laptop? Why do you hate me that much universe? Seriously. I hate you back you know.

I had a bad day today by the way. This is why I'm complaining about the oh-so-difficult world in which I have to buy a slightly less awesome new laptop than the totally-awesome-one I was hoping for. I'll just be over here, getting over myself now. -_- With the chocolate cupcakes I bought to soothe my (probably unfounded) rage at the world in general, because there is nothing that chocolate cupcakes cannot solve. Especially ones with marshmallows on top.