Just wanted to provide you all with a quick update on my computer situation. The good news is that my laptop is still covered under Best Buy’s 3-year product replacement plan, so as of this afternoon, it has been sent out to be repaired. I should have it—or a suitable replacement—back in my hands in two weeks or less. If everything goes well. Frankly, I’m relieved that I opted to buy the 3-year coverage, otherwise, it would have been a much longer wait for the next installment of Reclaimer. Fingers crossed that my laptop gets back quickly. It already feels like I’ve had a limb amputated.
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Ouch. That doesn't sound like a good feeling.
Personally, I regret buying the 3-year warranty on my laptop. I've never had any serious problems (read: hardware) that it needed to be sent in to fix. Mostly I just fix the crap that happens on my own, the worst that has happened (so far) is a few STOP errors due to a CCleaner scan removing some important registry files…
Mind you, it helps to be tech savvy with these things. The average person may-or-may-not have understood what I just said.
I've never minded the product replacement plans. You're basically buying insurance, in case something goes wrong. It doesn't always happen, but when it does, you're glad you have it. That's certainly the case with my laptop. It was a painful bite when I bought the laptop, but now I'm glad I have it. It's certainly cheaper in the long-run than buying a whole new laptop.
If this was a desktop computer, I'd have had the motherboard swapped out in two jiffies and a shake (I have half a dozen spares lying around). But laptops are a bit of a different creature altogether. Granted, if the warranty had expired, I'd probably be looking at finding a replacement motherboard, but since it's still covered, I don't mind having someone else look at it and either fix it or replace at no additional cost to myself. It's worth the little of bit inconvenience at not having my laptop for a couple of weeks.
Oh, that's all well and good, as long as the company can follow through with it. My mum got a 3 year warranty on her Optima laptop, and about 2 1/2 years later, it died. When she tried to get it repaired, she found out that Optima had gone bankrupt, and sold out, so there was no way she could get it repaired
@FuRrY: Don't worry about us average people. I understood every word in your post.
@Jim: If you end up getting a new laptop, get a Dell. Most reliable and fast laptop I've ever had. I'm running Ubuntu and XP Pro dual boot with no problems whatsoever. It even held up after getting dropped twice.
I've heard people say good things about Dell. I'm seriously considering replacing it with another Vaio, though. I've been really happy with this one, especially considering how much abuse I've put it through over the last couple of years. My laptop works 12-15 hours a day and goes pretty much everywhere I do. Frankly, I'm surprised I hadn't managed to break something long before now.
I'm running a Toshiba with Windows 7 expert, and despite what many of you purists think, it's not actually that bad.
Oh man, I know the feeling. It was bad enough when my laptop's power cord gave out and I had to go without it for a couple days while they shipped a new one! At least it's still under warranty though, so you don't have to try to fix it yourself. Laptops are built so densely that it's very hard to do any work inside of them.
Oh, I know the feeling to that one
I was working on my laptop when all of a sudden the charger sparked, crackled and died :'( I was just lucky we have 2 universal chargers and my friend has the same laptop. 
So Jim, are you still taking screenshots for your next few comics? Even if you can post any, you can treat us with a comic everyday for a week if you take your shots now
Taking the screenshots is actually the least part of the process of making comics. It takes much longer to do the scripting and the Photoshop assembly.