Phones and Hard Drives

After a whirlwind week and a Saturday that just wouldn't quit I find myself on a Sunday morning. With some coffee. Doing some geeky research.

My Verizon New in Two plan matures on Feb 20th. Which means it's time to get a new phone. I've been eyeballing the Palm Pre since they announced it, what, a year and a half ago? Verizon finally started carrying them on Jan 25th. It's definitely the frontrunner.

But then Marty Trujillo goes and blogs up a storm about his Droid. I started looking into the Nexus One and like the notion of its many-pixeled screen and fab OS. It's not out for a while though. And its form factor is bigger than the Pre.

My laptop drive is again driving me nuts. It locks the CPU up and generally makes the CPU unbearable. It's my second SSD on the Dell d420 and last night I gave up on SSD after 3 years and was ready to roll out to Frys to get a new, standard one. My father was up for the trip.

This morning I woke him up on instant message and checked store hours. Also looked into the details of the drive I need more closely. Turns out it's hard to find and nobody in town will actually carry it.

Damn early adopter-ness.

Got onto chat with Dell... not in the mood for human interaction today. Took a while but found a 40Gb for $200. Most lappy hard drives are running $60 for 160Gb. But it has the hard-to-find ZIF connector and the Dell-won't-sell-separately rubber bootie that makes it fit into the case perfectly. Father was up for the spend so I started to place the order.

Then Sr finds my entire laptop on eBay for $300. With a 60Gb hard drive. Wtf? So I cancel the hard disk order.

And now we're in research mode trying to figure out what to do.

Still sipping my coffee, avoiding human interaction. Plenty of that coming up this week.