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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
alas.
i really need to get myself a portable computer, if only for emergencies (like today). it would be handy for client meetings too. of course, after today, i won't have the funds for an emergency computer for quite some time. and possibly by that time, either i'll have gotten complacent and put it off, or the new one will have some sort of problem which will be expensive to fix, and yet again i'll have to put off the emergency kit.
plus, as my next Big Computer Investment, i think i'd really like a second monitor (my new graphics card has 2 dvi ports right on the back).
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Yeah, I just today sold my Toshiba G15 laptop (worth about $1000 used and $300 broken) to one of my friends for $350. She was looking to get a new desktop, but then I showed her this one that I wasn't using ... and offered it to her at the "broken" price. We spent this evening installing XP Pro on it, and some programs that I think she'll really like.
When she realized that the laptop had the capability to support two monitors, her eyes just lit up. It was so cute.
The thing is .... I know that machine backwards and forwards, so if it breaks, I can easily repair it. Of course it was barely used .... I just couldn't keep it because I need my laptops for traveling, and that one is too wide to get down the airplane aisles. And, naturally, no one seems to make a rolling laptop bag where you can insert the PC so that it has the wider side perpendicular to the ground.
Ah well. One more piece of "stuff" that I wasn't using gone. It feels good.