New laptop!
I bought a new laptop!
Since the Circuit Cities have been closing down, I had my brother take me to scope out laptops. There was a really cute one the size of a planner for $360...we found out the last one was the display unit...and just like that, said, "We'll take it."
Whoo hoo! So I've got my wonderful 17" Gateway powerhouse that's kept true to me to Scotland, back, and a year and half of brutal college punishment.
It's old and falling apart, and very heavy. I may be planning prematurely, but if I get the gig abroad, there is no way I'm going to lug this thing around again.
I've now got my cute little Lenovo IdeaPad...10.2" with a reasonable amount of power and weighs in around 3 lbs. Here's a review of it: link
IT'S SMALLER THAN A PIECE OF PAPER!! :D :D :D
Small, light-weight, a beautiful price for a machine I can do email checks and write stories on! I am so SO pleased with it, tho my main machine will still be my huge, unwieldy Gateway.
My brother joked with me that I could have gotten a PS3 instead. Dude. FUCK THAT. I've got everything...a laptop that is actually portable, a travel printer, an external DVD drive, and an external harddrive. Now all I've left is to get one of those portable flash drive powerhouses (320GB) and I will be my own walking office. Too bad there really isn't such a thing as a travel scanner, but eh. I suppose that's what digital cameras are for.
And for those wondering how I paid for it...well, all my frugality the past six months really paid off. :3 I starved to scrounge up tuition money and it turns out I had a little over a grand extra saved up. I paid my brother back for my Scotland airline ticket, got a laptop, and will use the rest to cover Chicago, textbooks, and whittle what I can of my current loans.
Yeah...walking away with around $36,000 of college debt. There are worse fates. My roommate is going to law school for example. But I calculated my monthly payments after graduation and they look scary. There is no job I'll be able to get to pay them with the current market. I am fairly sure. I'm banking everything on going abroad and saving up enough to go to grad school for my actual chosen profession.
TAX RETURN, I EAGERLY AWAIT YOU!!!
Since the Circuit Cities have been closing down, I had my brother take me to scope out laptops. There was a really cute one the size of a planner for $360...we found out the last one was the display unit...and just like that, said, "We'll take it."
Whoo hoo! So I've got my wonderful 17" Gateway powerhouse that's kept true to me to Scotland, back, and a year and half of brutal college punishment.
It's old and falling apart, and very heavy. I may be planning prematurely, but if I get the gig abroad, there is no way I'm going to lug this thing around again.
I've now got my cute little Lenovo IdeaPad...10.2" with a reasonable amount of power and weighs in around 3 lbs. Here's a review of it: link
IT'S SMALLER THAN A PIECE OF PAPER!! :D :D :D
Small, light-weight, a beautiful price for a machine I can do email checks and write stories on! I am so SO pleased with it, tho my main machine will still be my huge, unwieldy Gateway.
My brother joked with me that I could have gotten a PS3 instead. Dude. FUCK THAT. I've got everything...a laptop that is actually portable, a travel printer, an external DVD drive, and an external harddrive. Now all I've left is to get one of those portable flash drive powerhouses (320GB) and I will be my own walking office. Too bad there really isn't such a thing as a travel scanner, but eh. I suppose that's what digital cameras are for.
And for those wondering how I paid for it...well, all my frugality the past six months really paid off. :3 I starved to scrounge up tuition money and it turns out I had a little over a grand extra saved up. I paid my brother back for my Scotland airline ticket, got a laptop, and will use the rest to cover Chicago, textbooks, and whittle what I can of my current loans.
Yeah...walking away with around $36,000 of college debt. There are worse fates. My roommate is going to law school for example. But I calculated my monthly payments after graduation and they look scary. There is no job I'll be able to get to pay them with the current market. I am fairly sure. I'm banking everything on going abroad and saving up enough to go to grad school for my actual chosen profession.
TAX RETURN, I EAGERLY AWAIT YOU!!!