There are three new computers I want to buy. Not that I am going to do at the moment as I’m completely broke and can barely afford to live let alone buy new computers. But hypothetically there are three on my list. Two have been on for a while – a storage server and a Linux test server. But I’m adding a third one to my list now, a replacement laptop.
My current one sucks. You can’t take it anywhere as the battery life is 90 seconds, it gets way too hot and often over heats and turns off, you don’t even what to type on it because of the heat coming off it, plus it’s falling apart, the battery compartment hangs off the bottom because where it locks into place it was broken. Having a laptop wasn’t as cool as I dreamed of before I got it but make no mistake it was VERY cool and now it would be even cooler as my home is wireless so I literally could listen to all my music (which is stored on my desktop) and surf the internet without any wires. Something I couldn’t do even when my current laptop’s battery worked as A) my music was on my external hard drive as I couldn’t fit it on my laptop’s hard drive and B) I didn’t have a wireless network.
The decision to add it to my wishlist came about because my parents have gone on holiday and run off with the TV. So I generally listen to music when I’m cooking. But my current CDs are boring and I don’t have any new blank ones because I ran out and don’t want to spend any money buying new ones. Plus it’s such a hassle to burn them aswell and a waste of money if you are hardly ever going to listen to them. So what I wanted was a laptop I could just take down to the kitchen, wirelessly connect to my network and access all my music.
Although I’ve been toying with the idea of adding one to my wishlist for some time as it would be great to have one I could take out when I needed (with all the problems of my current laptop it simply isn’t worth doing at the moment, especially with me needing to find a power supply and indeed taking my power adapter adds significant weight) and just be able to take round the house. Also as I use my laptop for emails, storing my documents and such (so that if I do go say on holiday or away for a day and need access to my important stuff, I can in theory take my laptop) I want something that boots up really fast, or at least as fast as my desktop so that I can edit things as I do on my desktop over the network. Although if I had a laptop that didn’t take ages to load any program and didn’t burn you’re hands when you touched it I would start editing on my laptop again.
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