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New Laptops: Mine and Possibly Yours!

Well, I was sitting on the lounge on Sunday with my newly-restored laptop when, uh-oh, the hard drive started making That Noise again. So it stopped booting once more and I was kinda, "… oh." but not so emo this time because I'd both Time Machine'd and manually backed up all my important shit about an hour before. So nothing major got lost.

Even still, on Sunday afternoon ~Mat [h] took me down to Mac1 once more, this time to buy a replacement. Much to his annoyance, I got the 'equivalent' replacement – a 15" MacBook Pro – mostly because the 13" screens on the MacBooks were just… to small. I do everything on my laptop (on my lap, not plugged into a monitor) and I could just see the 13" screen driving me nuts. So a 15" it was, and if right now is a horrible time to buy Pros (there's supposedly a new version release in a couple of months)? Well, I buy pretty much everything like that. I'll deal.

In fact, have a picture of me doing just that:

The new MacBook's name is Tavehd-Kyn (literally "Second Gift"), and last night it occurred to me that it was the most awesome thing ever when its keyboard lit up because the room was dark. How fucking awesome is that shit? I knew about the camera and the gyroscope but, like, a light sensor too? Holy fuckola!

Anyway, my big debate now is what to do with Vexxis. Thing is, the HDD is on the fritz and it's as old as fuck but otherwise it's a perfectly serviceable laptop. It's about $130 for a new, bottom of the line 80gig hard drive, plus whatever the install costs In Your Area are. I've still got the original box containing all the original leads and so forth, and when I get a minute between furiously writing job applications I'm going to zero out and reformat the HDD. Because you never know (but you probably do).

So, my question is, who wants a laptop? It's a PowerBook G4 1.33GHz, 512MB RAM, 55GB HDD.

Your auction starts now. Base price is shipping (the box is huge; I'll get some numbers tomorrow when I've measured and weighed the thing).

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