Well... life without a laptop didn't last very long...
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No, Ian didn't come home... :-)
I decided that I really didn't like not having a laptop if I'm going to be on the road (i.e., vacation). So I went out to Fry's today to just "look around"...
Shoulda known *that* wasn't going to work too well!
I came home with a Toshiba S213 laptop, Pentium 4 3.33GHz HT, 15.4" screen, 1GB RAM, 100GB hard drive, DVDRW, and 802.11b/g built in. And all for the low, low price of $1299! :) Throw in a $50 Canon printer that's free after rebate, and I think I did pretty well.
Now if Joe and I present again at Lotusphere this year, I won't end up cutting out the last part of my presentation (Eclipse as an alternative Java IDE for Domino) because my machine was painfully repainting the screen...
No, Ian didn't come home... :-)
I decided that I really didn't like not having a laptop if I'm going to be on the road (i.e., vacation). So I went out to Fry's today to just "look around"...
Shoulda known *that* wasn't going to work too well!
I came home with a Toshiba S213 laptop, Pentium 4 3.33GHz HT, 15.4" screen, 1GB RAM, 100GB hard drive, DVDRW, and 802.11b/g built in. And all for the low, low price of $1299! :) Throw in a $50 Canon printer that's free after rebate, and I think I did pretty well.
Now if Joe and I present again at Lotusphere this year, I won't end up cutting out the last part of my presentation (Eclipse as an alternative Java IDE for Domino) because my machine was painfully repainting the screen...
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Yeah, I've decided that going to Fry's is like going to Costco - you have to spend a certain amount of money to get out.
Posted by Greg Walrath At 16:40:59 On 30/08/2005 | - Website - |
Posted by Blair At 21:58:33 On 07/09/2005 | - Website - |
It's all down to everything only costing £1 or £2 each so you buy three or four cause they are such good value and when you've done that on a dozen items the bill is in three figures
Posted by Kitty At 04:44:38 On 05/09/2005 | - Website - |
Seriously, I know that Macs are good choices and that I could have made that work for me. But I really wasn't in the mood to start learning a new OS and becoming familiar with a whole new suite of tools. Much of what I will do with this laptop will be business-related. Most of the business stuff I do is primarily focused on Windows platforms. Hence, I'm still buying Windows...
Posted by Duffbert At 04:23:41 On 08/09/2005 | - Website - |