The rush to get something smaller
Sometimes you need to be patient. Need to control your enthusiasm. Need to sit back and wait for the setup to complete successfully. I’m trying, really hard, to retain my urge to throw caution to the wind. My new Wind, that is, from MSI.
We set out, a mere thirty minutes before the stores closed, with a goal; to add that netbook to the inventory. Even if it’s just for the summer months, because the reason for getting a netbook is to run a whiteboard in a classroom in the near future. Not my classroom, though; I’m the tester.
The “baby shirt” on duty (his co-worker was Mini Jeff) first wanted to see if we wanted further information. An actual ready to buy customer wasn’t on his personal radar that late in the evening. He did a cursory check of inventory levels, and told us that there was nothing available. Our team doesn’t give up easily, so he checked the stock in other regional stores. Maybe, but no assurance as to colour (as if that mattered to me). Yes, he could sell us the one on demo, but it would take 48 hours to reset the hard drive to factory defaults (what??). This didn’t sound promising. While he was distracted by other customers, Mini Jeff waded in.
The competition for our attention was the key. Suddenly, there was stock in the back room. In our choice of colour. The stockroom computer wasn’t ALWAYS up to date. In a matter of minutes, baby shirt was back with a box, in the chosen white (sort of akin to a Mac). We were ready to pay and play.
Back to patience. I’m watching the mandatory 47 plus updates are being downloaded and installed window crawl by. Any plans to set up a dual (or even triple) boot system will have to wait for another day. At least the hunt is over, and I can look forward to blogging on a netbook for the next few weeks.
Our new machine is a white MSI Wind U100, with one gig of RAM (for now). The baby is on our wireless and responding well to the smiles and cooing sounds.
