While the rest of the world has criticized Microsoft pretty strongly for missing the Christmas season with the release of Windows Vista, I have discovered that it dropped at pretty much the perfect time for me: tax refund season. So, between this and the discovery that Adobe Encore won’t run on my old AMD Athlon XP processor, Operation Core 2 Duo is now in full swing.
So over the last couple of days, I’ve been making the rounds, checking out what’s out there, what parts I can get for what I’m willing to pay, that sort of thing. And in Pricewatching and Froogling the motherboard I selected to make sure I was indeed getting the best price, I clicked a link for a place offering it on sale at a bargain price:
I wonder what coupons look like in their world.