| Computers and weekend trips |
[07 Jun 2003|08:49am] |
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Last week I ordered a laptop computer. I had decided last year I should get one for school and recently started looking around. I saw a really neat Tablet PC convertible thingy in a store, the Toshiba Portégé but it's starting price is $2500 and so that's a little out of my price range. I planned to spend about $2K, and after upgrades and stuff the Toshiba would end up costing nearly $3K.
It would be neat to have a tablet to take notes on in class, but I wasn't so impressed with the other ones I found, and they all had tiny 10" screens. I began to look at thin and light computers, ones I could carry with me wherever I went. It's amazing how enormous some of these bricks are, weighing 7+ pounds! One site compared the weights to different fill levels of a gallon of milk. Would you want to carry a 3/4 full gallon of milk around with you all day?
I was learning towards the Dell Latitude and told my father, who proceed to the next day call Dell and see what sort of prices they could give with additional memory and stuff like that. Turns out to be not such a bad price. Since there are no Dell stores around for hundreds of miles, I'd need to order one to see if I liked it anyway, so I placed the order last week. The computer went out last night and should arrive on Wed, I'm excited!!
Depending on how long the shipping does take (I got flash memory with the computer that was shipped separately and was shipped overnight) because I'm going away for the weekend on a road trip to Philadelphia. Since LC is going away to law school in the fall (Aug really) and needs a place to live, I was invited to go down for a few days and help search. Actually, I'm just going to be a tourist really. The searching will commence after I depart on Tuesday. LC is renting a car today, picking me up in a few hours and we're driving today, spending Sat, Sun & Mon nights then I'm flying home Tuesday morning so LC can find a new home and I can go to the French consulate and apply for my visa.
It was driving me crazy planning it all at the last minute since I have things to do, but it worked out in the end. I think I screamed at LC too much, but apologised. I think it was just too sudden, trying to get things at work ready and my visa stuff ready and pack and I had to work last night and all that. But I'm going to now relax and have fun. I even gave up 5 hours at my part time job for this!
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