Ah, Freedom
Posted on September 10, 2006 by Ching under Toys.
Brian and I can now play poker in bed thanks to Eli‘s hand-me-down laptop. Hurrah for us! It pays to have geeky, gamer friends. LOL. Just kidding.
Kidding aside, the laptop is more of a desktop replacement (DTR). If you know anything about DTRs, they’re not the most portable of laptops. They are usually packed with goodies, though. The chunky size was a small sacrifice. We didn’t really plan on taking the laptop anywhere. The family room would probably the farthest distance it would go. Anyway, at $500 it was a hell of a deal!
Of course, my cheap Asian side kicked in and I told Brian to negotiate a lower price. “Ask him for the good friend discount,” I said. Brian told me that $500 is the good friend price because Eli paid over $2000 for it new. However, he did throw in a free Litescribe DVD burner which probably would’ve cost us another $200 if we were to buy it separately. Eli is the best!
I would say that I’m just going to wait for all of his computer hand-me-downs from now except he has switched to the other team. He’s now a Mac guy. So all future used items will be Mac stuff. So much for that plan, huh?
Anyway, here are the specs of our new used laptop: 3.2GHz Pentium 4 processor, 1GB of RAM, 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9800, 60GB hard drive, CD-RW/DVD player combo, TV out, Dell TrueMobile wireless, and it’s Bluetooth capable! I think it won’t be long before Brian is playing WOW in bed. LOL.
P.S. The only downside I’ve found so far is that the blog looks funny on it because of the widescreen display. It works great for watching movies, though! =P
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