And you and Jasmine have the same hive mind. No surprise there. It's not an immediate purchase, as I (fortunately now) purchased a two year warranty/protection plan with Marvin (the bastard PC laptop) on top of Toshiba's one year warranty, so the second warranty just came into effect. But I've already sent away for a brand new battery and now a new ac adaptor as I seem to be having some sort of jack problem/possible just weak connection and Marvin has had its motherboard replaced and battery reset in the time I've owned it (all of these problems happened within months of each other). I'm basically testing the waters for What Happens Next.
I'm already looking out for an external hard drive, I just purchased this seven dollar gadget that is supposed to prevent me from further laptop jack woes, and just biding my time - I completely forgot about the new incarnation of Windows (and yeah, I know apple has something called Bootcamp that will be able to run windows xp) so this definitely factors into what comes after Marvin. I will either wait until Vista is officially unveiled or Apple unveils a new generation of their macbook as some of the problems stated in the article concerned me. Price is becoming less of an issue as I could always get the mac at a school and get reduced rates (and currently the apple store online is offering a free mp3 player/or printer) with a purchase of a computer and at the lowest end, I still paid more for Marvin than I would for a mac book, plus they have installment plans.
I'm seriously considering going into a teaching english abroad program soon, so that's also a potential wrench in the works. But hey, this will be a good thing to keep in the back of my mind for when I really do need to buy a new laptop.
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Date: 2006-06-12 11:23 pm (UTC)And you and Jasmine have the same hive mind. No surprise there. It's not an immediate purchase, as I (fortunately now) purchased a two year warranty/protection plan with Marvin (the bastard PC laptop) on top of Toshiba's one year warranty, so the second warranty just came into effect. But I've already sent away for a brand new battery and now a new ac adaptor as I seem to be having some sort of jack problem/possible just weak connection and Marvin has had its motherboard replaced and battery reset in the time I've owned it (all of these problems happened within months of each other). I'm basically testing the waters for What Happens Next.
I'm already looking out for an external hard drive, I just purchased this seven dollar gadget that is supposed to prevent me from further laptop jack woes, and just biding my time - I completely forgot about the new incarnation of Windows (and yeah, I know apple has something called Bootcamp that will be able to run windows xp) so this definitely factors into what comes after Marvin. I will either wait until Vista is officially unveiled or Apple unveils a new generation of their macbook as some of the problems stated in the article concerned me. Price is becoming less of an issue as I could always get the mac at a school and get reduced rates (and currently the apple store online is offering a free mp3 player/or printer) with a purchase of a computer and at the lowest end, I still paid more for Marvin than I would for a mac book, plus they have installment plans.
I'm seriously considering going into a teaching english abroad program soon, so that's also a potential wrench in the works. But hey, this will be a good thing to keep in the back of my mind for when I really do need to buy a new laptop.