Wow. I feel dumb now.

[arymede]

For the past 8 months or so, I have been kinda pissed off at my laptop. The touchpad stopped working that long ago, and the computer was less than a year old at the time. I had declined the warranty stuff I was offered when I bought the thing, though, so I determined it was my own damned fault. I did decide to never buy anything from Future Shop

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[juliebee123]

...you know that Toshiba laptops come with a 1 or even a 2 year manufacturer's warranty?

I'd never get a Future Shop or second party warranty ever again either, but manufacturer warranties, especially from Toshiba or Sony (not HP or Comcrap) should be decent.

[arymede]

Yeah, but the reason it was on such a good sale was because it was a refurb. Usually they're just as good as other laptops in my experience, as long as you treat it reasonably well, particularly if you're reasonably decent with computers. Which, until this point, I always thought I was...

[k_sinclair]

Bwah hahahaha!

Of course, there was this one time when I asked a geek friend of mine to help me with my wireless keyboard, because it (grrr!) wasn't working, and after much troubleshooting I worked out that I had, um, put the batteries in backwards.

My aunt recently paid a large housecall fee to a technician who came to her house to fix her broken fireplace remote.
Strangely enough, it too had stopped working right after my aunt changed the batteries. Same problem too.