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My laptop has finally been ordered! It was originally supposed to be a high school graduation gift that kept being pushed back further back and back. At first it was because I didn't really need a new laptop right when I got to college, and then it became a waiting game for the stuff I wanted to finally come out. Everything came together though, and so I ordered a very nice
Dell Inspiron 8600 all decked out for programming, wireless web, and of course gaming. The full specs are up on the
specs page but the short of it is that it has a Pentium M (Centrino) 1.7 GHz (comparable to a 3 GHz Pentium 4), 1 GB of RAM, a 15" UXGA screen, a 60 GB harddrive, DVD burner, and the key component I've been waiting about 6 months for: a 128 MB ATI Radeon 9600 videocard, which blows everything else away. I'm also buying the RAM separately as 1 GB of RAM costs $550 from the Dell website, or you can buy it for $250 straight from the manufacturer. You just have to install it yourself which is easy to do. The only bad thing about buying a laptop (any laptop) is due to my Florida residency, you can't buy any kind of accident protection due to some stupid Florida law. So I'm going to have to make sure nothing happens to it. It should come in around January 8th, so I'll be spending that day wiping the harddrive to install Linux and reinstall XP so I don't have to have all those crappy programs that most manufacturer's put on their computers (No I don't want 6 months of AOL, geez)
How come it doesn't feel like it's 4 days till Christmas? Hmm, oh yeah, I still need to buy some presents for some people.
Oops. I need to bake Christmas cookies or something. Yes, nothing says Christmas like baking snowman and Christmas tree sugar cookies. Yumscious
You know I'm out of school when the archives get updated. January 2003 and February 2003 are modernized.
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