{"id":476,"date":"2002-09-29T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-30T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibik.org\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2002-09-29T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-30T00:45:00","slug":"476","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/2002\/09\/29\/476\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/us\">IBM<\/a> for having such a crappy online ordering process that I have decided to buy from a different company.  I would have purchased an <a href=\"http:\/\/www-132.ibm.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-840&#038;storeId=1&#038;categoryId=2302836&#038;langId=-1&#038;dualCurrId=73\">IBM Thinkpad R<\/a>, but whenever I would try to pick the parts I wanted, the price would always be &#8220;NA&#8221;.  Maybe that means they are sold out of Thinkpad Rs, but they could have told me in a better fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this set back, I might just buy a laptop from Compaq.  If someone had told me last week that I was going to get a Compaq, I would have laughed my ass off.  Instead, I have fallen in love with the <a href=\"http:\/\/athome.compaq.com\/default.asp?ProductLineId=440&#038;page=families\">Compaq Presario 900<\/a>.  As of right now, it is looking like I will be getting these specs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mobile Athlon XP 2000+<\/li>\n<li>256 MB 266MHz DDR<\/li>\n<li>30 gig hard drive<\/li>\n<li>8x DVD drive<\/li>\n<p>14.1&#8243; XGA Display<\/li>\n<li>Built-in 56k modem and 10\/100 NIC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The laptop is a bit beefier than my last one (1.5&#8243; thick and 6.8 lbs), but it shouldn&#8217;t be a noticeable difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to thank IBM for having such a crappy online ordering process that I have decided to buy from a different company. I would have purchased an IBM Thinkpad R, but whenever I would try to pick the parts I wanted, the price would always be &#8220;NA&#8221;. Maybe that means they are sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibik.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}