I’m feeling very happy-happy-joy-joy right now because my laptop came back from Dell today, fixed and (so far) as good as new. In addition to fixing the motherboard, which they were contractually obligated to do by the terms of the warranty, Dell also swapped out the LED screen and the optical drive, which they didn’t have to do. So I’m pretty happy right now, testing everything out and making sure things still work.

Kudos to Dell for going above and beyond on their warranty obligations.

This is what I just purchased today:

Set me back just over $3,000, but it’s swanked out with the top-of-the-line everything (except the solid state drive, which wasn’t large enough for what I needed).

Ships on October 30th. Can’t wait!