Adventures in Shopping...for a New Laptop
After losing his spacebar and resigning to put his beloved PowerBook out of its misery, Daniel scours Aquidneck Island in search of the perfect laptop within his budget range. Will he go PC?
The adventure begins at Cox Computer Repair, 26 Broadway in Newport. Will Cox looks down at my beloved Apple PowerBook G4 laptop and shakes his head. While the sleek, aluminum-bodied device still retains its looks – I treat it like it's made of fine crystal – it's never been dropped, nor had motherboard frying Coke Zero placed anywhere near it. It is, Will reminds me, five years old. Five years. That's 35 in dog years, and evidently septuagenarian for computers. The reason I'm at Cox Computer Repair is because my PowerBook, which is on its second keyboard, is failing again. The delete key (that's the backspace key for you PC folk), is not working. The quote key quit next. And then, complete and utter desperation: the space bar fails. While…
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