Well I just purchased a new (Refurbished) HP ZV5000 laptop computer. I purchased it from Mr. Laptop. He runs his business out of the basement of his house. He has a nice setup, with a book shelf setup displaying the availible laptops that are for sale as well as a number of monitors and desktops. I purchased this Althlon 64 3000+ for $1199 CAD (before taxes). It's got all kinds of goodies in it too like Wifi 802.11g etc, 80gig HD, 512MN mem, and DVD/CD-RW drive, and a GeForce 4 440 Go 64Mb (deticated memory). Although this is my first laptop I think I got a good deal on it. I am having some adjustment issues with the keyboard layout. The keys are not like a standard keyboard so it takes a little longer to find the home/end/delete keys etc. but that's minor. The touch pad takes a little getting used to especilly when I've never used one before. Good thing I brought my optical mouse from home. I also purchaed a new hickers backpack for $170 CAD and a car adapter for the laptop so I can watch dvd's on the long trip home.

I will probably write a review of the system when I get back home.

Whoa! stop everything! I was just on the job site loading up the ladders and equipment and stuff, and just got in the truck and could smell plastic burning. I'm thinking what the hell? I check the brand new apc car lighter adapter and it's freaking melting! Holy crap! I just bought the dam thing like 2 hours ago and paid $80 CAD just to have it melt on me! The truck was not even running, to boot! Needless to say it's going to be back to radio shack asap. My long standing faith with APC is now in serious question! All the surge protectors I have at home are APC products. I have not had any problems with them thus far but this meltdown has got me thinking thoughts I don't want to be thinking about. Dam it's a good thing I disconnected the laptop before getting out of the truck!!! But I did not disconnect the wall adapter for the laptop from the APC car adapter so now I'm concerned about plugging in the laptop using it's wall adapter! Geeze I almost fried my brand new less then 24 hours old laptop!!! Oh my poor baby are you ok! :P Now I'm wondering if my waranty on my laptop covers bad surge protectors that may cause damage to the system. Then again apc usually has faulty device protection on there products.

We are just bringing the equipment up to the north side right now, and am typing this glog entry on the laptop, so I can just cut and paste it into my blog whenever I get access to the internet again.

Anyway I was doing a little war driving on the way to the job site and there had to be at least over a dozen hot spots I picked up along the way! This wifi stuff is geting me thinking things that could get me into trouble. hehe. It would be awsome if I could find a hot spot with internet access!