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[ladyluckless]

In the grand tradition of crazy family members offering increasing amounts of cash/goods to get their unwilling offspring to come home for the holidays my mother is attempting to get me to come home for Christmas by buying me a laptop. Meaghan gets a car, Erin gets offered money and whiny phone calls and I get offered a string of incentives that finally ended up in shiny technology. First there was "We don't know if we have room for you," followed by "Wait, what, you're okay with that?" which ended in "We'll buy you a bus ticket, you're coming home," after which I explained that I had work obligations so they went "We'll offer you a deluge of things you don't need or want! And money. But you have to do things for us, like watch Amy's kid," and then after I said really, no, you don't have to . . ."I know! You like computers, right? How about we get you a laptop. Go pick one out."

Since by this point it's pretty clear to me that unless I flee the country/drop dead of mysterious causes before Christmas I'm going to be bound, gagged and presented to my family, and that my mother has the idea in her head and will do it anyway--probably badly without interference--I might as well play the dysfunctional family monkey dance (rights to this phrase belong to yumemisama . . . I'm just borrowing it, without permission) for a bit to avoid being saddled with my own ponycar. So, um, any suggestions for good laptops? Since I'm apparently in the market.