TALK ABOUT SLOW!!!  My computer is OLD (July 2005) and HUGE (17" monitor Dell Inspiron, 9300) with only 512 RAM!

When a friend was having too many problems with his computer and frustrated enough that he was going to buy a new one - we headed to Best Buy:

 
Right next to the LARGEST BANK IN THE WORLD ICBC - Chinese government owned, oh no - sorry, 15% is public and as the Americans now consider AIG public at 80% owned, CITI public at ... well, I am not sure!!!  You get the point!  Laughing - who knows these days.

Xu jia hui is one of the more SWANKY areas with expensive shopping, NEW stores, etc.

The Best Buy is AMERICAN owned, NOT a JV (Joint Venture).  So I finally found the first REAL DVDs in China!!  130 yuan!!!  $20 - no wonder no one was even in that section of the store (a small section, to say the least).  THE STORE WAS PACKED however!

The building has 5 floors - everything from Lazy Boy massage chairs to vaccume cleaners to big, big screen TVs to Mini computers (gotta git myself a one of them for travelin'!!!  WOW! and CHEAP!)

We chatted with the Geek Squad on Friday night and I went back Saturday and now have 2 Gigs of RAM in my Dian Nao!!  (Electric Brain!  LAUGHING!!)  ZZOOOOOOMMM!!  MUCH faster now!

 
They popped it in, 400 yuan (about $45) and I AM SET!!!  (I won't be bringing my computer home this summer as I will be traveling through the Middle East before arriving in the U.S.!!)