{"id":668,"date":"2006-09-10T21:56:37","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T02:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2006-09-10T21:56:37","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T02:56:37","slug":"ah-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brian and I can now play poker in bed thanks to Eli<\/a>‘s hand-me-down laptop. Hurrah for us! It pays to have geeky, gamer friends. LOL. Just kidding.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

Of course, my cheap Asian side kicked in and I told Brian to negotiate a lower price. “Ask him for the good friend<\/i> 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!<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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<\/a> in bed. LOL.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}