New Laptop
My large beast of a 17 inch Sager laptop is now a desktop. I opened it 1.5 weeks ago to have the hinge snap out on me, a month after the 1 year warranty! doh! I’d been wanting to get a smaller laptop since I’m on the go so much, but was juts waiting for the right time. The large laptop is still in good condition, just no good for transporting. So, Nick ordered me a new one and it arrived yesterday and I have it mostly configured.
The brand is Crown and I ordered from PowerNotebooks.com and its great. It came naked so I could install the windows I already own (decided not to get vista, mostly what I do these days is run linux in VMs) and not have a load of crap on it like aol, et al. Its a 2Ghz dual core with 2 GB memory and 80 gig hard drive. Plenty of space for my VMs - was a bit cramped on 40GB on my older one. Its weighs just 5.6lbs with battery and I think will work out great. Since I have destructive tendencies it seems, Nick got the 3 year warrenty for this one!