I need a new laptop computer
May. 24th, 2007 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisI currently use a small Toshiba Protege 7020CT. I bought it used about six years ago, largely because it was the smallest, lightest machine I could get cheaply which had a USB port; at the time, I was scanning vast quantities of the out-laws' decades-old collection of slides and I wanted to do in the living room or dining room rather than isolated in the cold basement (our computer room wasn't built then).
The wee beastie has a 233 MHz Pentium II, 128 MB of RAM and a 6 GB hard drive. It currently runs Windows XP and MS Office 98 well enough; with the addition of a PCMCIA card, wireless internet access has been good too. It's small profile makes it ideal for travel so it goes with me to exotic travel destinations --like Denver. And for only $275 six years ago, it's also practically disposable if some airline crushed it under the wheels of a 747.
Alas, the sheer overhead of switching between windows and general sluggishness is making me ponder spending money on a newer laptop. This little machine has been a good soldier but I'm spending too much of my life watching it boot.
Beinga cheap bastard inherently frugal, I'm likely to get another used model: I'm more than happy to let someone else burn in a new machine and discover its failings 91 days into a 90 day warranty. I'm also more than happy to let someone else absorb the early depreciation, like a new car driven off the lot.
When I return home again, I'll start sniffing through the pawn shops, Craig's List and local computer shows to see what I can find. It won't be a top-of-the-line model but it will at least have 512 MB of RAM, a 40 GB hard drive, a much faster CPU and built-in modem & network ports and wireless capability, as well as leaning to the small side.
More news as it develops.
The wee beastie has a 233 MHz Pentium II, 128 MB of RAM and a 6 GB hard drive. It currently runs Windows XP and MS Office 98 well enough; with the addition of a PCMCIA card, wireless internet access has been good too. It's small profile makes it ideal for travel so it goes with me to exotic travel destinations --like Denver. And for only $275 six years ago, it's also practically disposable if some airline crushed it under the wheels of a 747.
Alas, the sheer overhead of switching between windows and general sluggishness is making me ponder spending money on a newer laptop. This little machine has been a good soldier but I'm spending too much of my life watching it boot.
Being
When I return home again, I'll start sniffing through the pawn shops, Craig's List and local computer shows to see what I can find. It won't be a top-of-the-line model but it will at least have 512 MB of RAM, a 40 GB hard drive, a much faster CPU and built-in modem & network ports and wireless capability, as well as leaning to the small side.
More news as it develops.
