Not long ago, my mum’s laptop died. I mean, I’m not sure if it died completely or if it just became so unreliable as to be useless, but it is pretty much unusable now.
This meant that my dad faced two choices — either he could buy mum a new (cheap, simple) laptop or he could buy me a newer and better laptop, and I could clean my laptop up for mum’s use.
Well, guess which option I persuaded dad to go with! 
It’s not like it was expensive either; it was $1186 but we got a 5% discount, without even asking, because the last laptop of its kind left at Officeworks was the one on display, and we agreed to take this one on display. I think the salesperson thought we weren’t going to take the laptop if it wasn’t fresh out of the box, and was trying to persuade us to take it without realising that this didn’t worry us anyway. View full article »