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Things are going to be a lot different around here now that I’ve got myself a fancy laptop computer.  It’s been a long time coming, too.  Miriam bought our last computer in 2001 or so, and it served us well for many years, but when it finally gave up a month or so ago it was inevitable that we’d have to put up some money for something decent.  So, I went this morning to Office Depot at 13th Street and 10th Avenue (noted for its Freeze Outs) and bought an HP laptop with 4GB or RAM, putting our erstwhile computer’s 256MB to shame.

I have had some reservations about using a laptop as our primary computer, and I am still fairly confident that I’ll get us a mid-grade desktop in the not-too-distant future, so we can both have something to use on those occasions that we each have important work to do.  But, for now, this one will probably do us pretty well.  I will have to attach a mouse, since the touchpad is an absurdly stupid invention.  But the keyboard is full size with a 10-key pad and everything.  The display is enormous – bigger than our old monitor, even.

I still need to get us on a wireless connection here at home, since nobody nearby has any open WiFi signal which I can steal.  What there is is too weak.  Once mine is up and running, though, I’ll be computing out in the yard, and in bed, and on the couch and in the shower, etc.  This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

Filed under: Technology on July 10th, 2008