And I will hug it, and squeeze it...
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triadruidWe have a laptop again. I have called it George.
It's a low-end Dell, but it's totally sufficient to our purposes (GMing/Internet, and note-taking at some meetings), and only $300. It's already updated, networked with the Linux boxes (though that did give WinXP pause for a moment) and working on downloading some data for our trip. If you're local to KC and in the market for a computer, you could do worse than to call on the Laptop Squad in the West Bottoms (and if you're not local, they have an eBay presence). Bonus points because the tech/salesman was actually using a soldering iron when I walked in this afternoon.
Even still, access will be minimal, as we'll mostly be out and about and having fun. See many of you...soonish!
It's a low-end Dell, but it's totally sufficient to our purposes (GMing/Internet, and note-taking at some meetings), and only $300. It's already updated, networked with the Linux boxes (though that did give WinXP pause for a moment) and working on downloading some data for our trip. If you're local to KC and in the market for a computer, you could do worse than to call on the Laptop Squad in the West Bottoms (and if you're not local, they have an eBay presence). Bonus points because the tech/salesman was actually using a soldering iron when I walked in this afternoon.
Even still, access will be minimal, as we'll mostly be out and about and having fun. See many of you...soonish!
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Date: 2008-07-16 01:13 pm (UTC)Double bonus points...
Date: 2008-07-16 03:03 pm (UTC)Used to work in a computer store of reasonably geeky (definitely non-salesdroid) sorts, and I was *still* the only person who knew how to use a soldering iron, so far as I could tell. The more damning thing? I was the network admin (they were also a 'back-room ISP', in the most literal sense), never touched any machines that were, or were destined to be, customer machines.
And I can't even use one all that well.