We all have new toys to play with!
For those of you who may not have yet been informed, Maryann (finally) bought a laptop. So we have had the pleasure of being not more than 15 feet away from each other (although in separate rooms), IMing each other as well as yelling to each other. Oh, the silliness. Hopefully, this will bring her further into the world of the evil internets and maybe she'll post a little more often.
Liz got into the CUNY Honors program, so she gets a free laptop. Unfortunately (from our PC-loving perspectives, of course), it's a Mac (of the new Macbook line). And it's technically the property of the school until her junior year, so she can't sell it to buy a PC laptop instead. So over the weekend she partitioned the hard drive and installed Windows on it so that she can use it as a PC. It's a 1.8ghz dual core processor, but only has a 60g hard drive, though, and there was about 20g of stuff installed on the Mac hd, so she only has about 25g to work with after partitioning and installing Windows. =( But it's very pretty -- a really light, 13" widescreen size. If you hold it sideways, it feels like you're holding a legal pad. I'm jealous of the cool 13" size. ^^ But it's exactly what she wanted size-wise; smaller than a 14" but with a full-size keyboard. Oooh! And it has one of those mini webcam things built in at the top of the screen!
Of course, like any jealous sibling, if both Maryann AND Liz get new toys, I want one too! So I got a new laptop. =D And it's the one that I wanted when I bought my "old" one -- that didn't exist until 6 months later! But I am not really insanely frivolous -- the only reason I was really able to do this is because my mom has been meaning to buy one for herself so she can do her work and school stuff on it. So I sold mine to her (at more than half off the original price, so I don't feel guilty about "selling" it to her) and bought this new one!
It has a 1.8ghz Core Duo processor (heh -- it has a sticker on it that says Duo inside! See icon.). ♥ And 1g of RAM! And a 120g hard drive! And it's a 14.1" screen, so it's considerably lighter than my old one. I luuuuv it so~!
I do have to say, though, that it the decision to get this new one was difficult -- I really like my old laptop. And I thought it fitting that, since my old laptop is named shinigami, to name this new one aibou. =D
Oh! And as for skins, I decided not to get the flames one again, so I'll have pics up once I get the new skin. =D
(I feel like it's really silly for me to be so excited over my new laptop, but I can't seem to help it.)
Liz got into the CUNY Honors program, so she gets a free laptop. Unfortunately (from our PC-loving perspectives, of course), it's a Mac (of the new Macbook line). And it's technically the property of the school until her junior year, so she can't sell it to buy a PC laptop instead. So over the weekend she partitioned the hard drive and installed Windows on it so that she can use it as a PC. It's a 1.8ghz dual core processor, but only has a 60g hard drive, though, and there was about 20g of stuff installed on the Mac hd, so she only has about 25g to work with after partitioning and installing Windows. =( But it's very pretty -- a really light, 13" widescreen size. If you hold it sideways, it feels like you're holding a legal pad. I'm jealous of the cool 13" size. ^^ But it's exactly what she wanted size-wise; smaller than a 14" but with a full-size keyboard. Oooh! And it has one of those mini webcam things built in at the top of the screen!
Of course, like any jealous sibling, if both Maryann AND Liz get new toys, I want one too! So I got a new laptop. =D And it's the one that I wanted when I bought my "old" one -- that didn't exist until 6 months later! But I am not really insanely frivolous -- the only reason I was really able to do this is because my mom has been meaning to buy one for herself so she can do her work and school stuff on it. So I sold mine to her (at more than half off the original price, so I don't feel guilty about "selling" it to her) and bought this new one!
It has a 1.8ghz Core Duo processor (heh -- it has a sticker on it that says Duo inside! See icon.). ♥ And 1g of RAM! And a 120g hard drive! And it's a 14.1" screen, so it's considerably lighter than my old one. I luuuuv it so~!
I do have to say, though, that it the decision to get this new one was difficult -- I really like my old laptop. And I thought it fitting that, since my old laptop is named shinigami, to name this new one aibou. =D
Oh! And as for skins, I decided not to get the flames one again, so I'll have pics up once I get the new skin. =D
(I feel like it's really silly for me to be so excited over my new laptop, but I can't seem to help it.)