I’ve recently signed up for a music training every Saturday and ever since then, my weekends have become extra hectic. And its not because of the training but its because of the many other events that suddenly pops up.

I’ve gone to birthdays, parks, gigs, productions, and I’ve already seen a lot of nice looking Trade show table covers which meant that I’ve been spending too much time at the malls.

Thankfully the training will stop for the month of December, but I doubt I’ll have more free time by then. I have to regroup and better plan the way I spend my weekend time.

Finally my wife and I have our new laptops.  And we are both satisfied with our purchases, hopefully that will be the end of our laptop hunting. This past few weeks has been a sort of extended Cyber Week for us, and I am relieved that it is over.  We have encountered a lot of  of problems, even scammers and product return and refunds,  and looking back I sure could have used a checklist for avoiding computer purchase problems, this could have saved us a lot of trouble.  So with our experience, I wrote down this checklist that hopefully would be read by prospective laptop buyers – to save them the trouble of finding out the hard way:

How to avoid Computer Purchase Problems:

- Understand why you need a laptop and know what tasks you will use it for (i.e. browsing, battery life, gaming, etc)

- Find the required/recommended laptop specifications to run the tasks you want (i.e. if want to play 3D games – you will need at least a laptop with a 1GB video card.

-  Make sure your candidates fit  your budget.  Look for brand and models that fit the requirements and your budget.

- Be wary of scammers, if the price is too good to be true then it probably is a scam. NEVER send or give money to people you do not know or trust. I recommend going to a reputable store. Make a research on the store before spending your money. You will be surprised at how bad some stores are.

- Take note of the suitable laptop candidates and REASEARCH on recurring problems with those laptop models. We just purchased an Asus 1215b netbook which had factory defective touch pads, we had to do a refund because even the replacement 1215b was also defective! The sad part it took us more than a month of waiting and wasting resources going to the store just to get our money back.  If we had researched more, there is already a lot of complaint on the net about it’s Touchpad…

- Look for discount opportunities or freebies,  and see if you can wait for these opportunities. We got some decent deals and freebies because we waited and haggled.   For our recent purchases, aside from the discounts, I got an upgraded ram (6GB total), a brand new HP digital  camera and a brand new D-link router.

-  Pay for your laptop in cash, if you have money to spare , you will normally get good discounts this way. This will help save money and will give you peace of mind.

- Carefully test the laptop out by spending at least 30 minutes doing what you normally do on the laptop, checking every nook and cranny while you are at the store before you take it home. The Asus 1215b touch pad issue do not start appearing until after a good few minutes which if we had tested extensively the first time, we could have avoided the purchase and all the hassle.

- Finally get the laptop that you worked hard for and that you deserve. And make sure to take good care of it.

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