Bought a laptop on eBay today.

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I realized after posting a discussion about my laptop yesterday, that I really needed to make a decision fast about getting a replacement laptop. So, after much pondering over 2 identical models, which ironically are the exact same as the one I have now, I went for the one that cost a little more. The reasoning behind this was that the battery gives a charge of over 2 hours, versus 10-15 minutes on the other one, versus mine, which holds for barely 5 minutes. It also has a cd burner, which the other doesn't, nor does my current one. That's a bit of an advantage for me, I'd like to burn some of the music on my hard drive at some point. My boss told me just to let her know what I wanted and that she'd do it herself, but with it on my hard drive, it's not an option. I have to pick it up on Monday which means my current laptop will have to stay on all weekend, despite not wanting to do that. I can't risk not being able to turn it back on when I need it. The good thing about replacing my laptop with an identical one is that I can just install the memory from this one into that one, and the hard drive if necessary. I didn't want to risk the chance of not being able to do this with any other laptop. So now I just have to wait until Monday, not a long time, but certainly a long time for this laptop to have to stay on, since I can't afford to let it shut down. I guess I'm also afraid of trying new things, if I got a different laptop, I may not like it. The other issue was with this seller, it's local so I can pick it up. I've had issues with Paypal in the past and was ripped off by a seller, never received my item and had to pay through Paypal, but off eBay, so there was no way to deal with the problem. My current laptop was purchased the same way that I'm getting the new one, which is great, so there's local support and an option to return it if something goes wrong with it. But hopefully this one works well.