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Well. I’m going to be getting a new laptop. And one of my choosing. That’s a first, really.
I last commented on my computing experiences in episode19 when I switched over to my current Inspiron 500m from the now ancient Latitude CpT C. In a few weeks I’ll be receiving a Latitude D830 with all the bells and whistles you can put on it. Really, I’m hyped.
I’ve owned five computers since 1998. Ok, that’s really an overstatement. In terms of age these are an IBM 5150, Dell Dimension v333c, the two aforementioned laptops and a custom (Read: Hillbilly) box based on an Abit AN7 motherboard. These are all second hand. I’ve only bought a stick of RAM and a fan for the AN7.
Post graduation, my dad said he’d buy me a laptop for college to replace the 500m. I was originally going to hold off for a while as I thought my trusty 500m would be sufficient for another year or two. And then I downloaded the first few episodes of Hayate no Gotoku which happened to come in 300MB+ mkv files. The lag was as bad as my CpT C trying to play 200MB avi’s. I was actually rather surprised.
So I hesitated no longer in ordering a new machine.
Oh yeah, another picture to make up for last week. I totally thought I’d updated but apparently I didn’t.
EDIT: Having come across a repair manual for the CpT by chance, I decided to replace the broken hinge. I mention the repair manual as I would not dare to dismantle the thing without one, in fear of breaking something. Specially things you can’t fix like damned plastic tabs.
