{"id":15,"date":"2008-03-17T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2008\/03\/long-live-the-laptop\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T20:53:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:23:25","slug":"long-live-the-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2008\/03\/long-live-the-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Long live the Laptop!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For months (nay, years!) I have been considering buying a new laptop. I just couldn’t scrape up the money to do so. (Buying books, DVDs and eating out all the time coupled with a sucky pay<\/a> will do that to you.)<\/p>\n

After getting my back pay from my previous job and getting a better paid job<\/a>, I finally could afford to buy a new laptop. But so many choices and decisions had to be made. It didn’t help that I moved to a new city and so had to spend a lot of money on setting up home once more.<\/p>\n

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Once the bank account was looking healthier, I started looking around. When I saw an advertisement for the Sony Vaio CR series, I was quite taken with them. Since the price was just slightly above my budget, I decided I would buy one.<\/p>\n

Random expenses cropped up and I kept putting off the purchase. Then I also read a lot of bad reviews for the computer online, besides which I had second thoughts about the lack of certain features like a graphics card with dedicated memory, the weight and size, etc. (Apparently, the present models have a graphics card, albeit an ATI one.)<\/p>\n

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Also, while the exterior of the laptop looked quite cool, I wasn’t too happy with the keyboard, which looked a bit small (and too Apple-y!)<\/p>\n

All of this coupled with the fact that I was a little uneasy about splurging so much money just to get a “cool” laptop, made me decide against a Sony.<\/p>\n

Just then, someone pointed out the new XPS laptops from Dell and I fell in love immediately!<\/p>\n

A fast processor, good graphics card, appropriate amounts of memory for Vista, good sized hard disk, a DVD writer and all of this in a light-weight machine that was just about 2kg.<\/p>\n

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When my brother told me he could get an employee discount at Dell, that just sealed the deal. But, I had to wait a couple of months more. A few mix ups with which bank account my money should be in to pay for the machine delayed the whole ordering process. And when I did finally place the order, the website told me the estimated delivery date was a month away!<\/p>\n

But she’s finally here. I received the laptop a full two weeks ahead of the “estimated” delivery date, much to my surprise and joy. She’s been christened Zippy, a “cuter” name than the last laptop had.<\/p>\n

While I did save on the laptop because of the discount, I’ve been a bit splurge happy since, buying a new USB flash drive to port a few things and a laser bluetooth mouse to accompany the laptop. Not to mention that I also bought a copy of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars to play<\/p>\n

Oh well, I shall just have to starve for the next couple of weeks!<\/p>\n

Welcome Zippy, and here’s to many great hours of games and blogging!<\/p>\n

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P.S. I bought the black one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For months (nay, years!) I have been considering buying a new laptop. I just couldn’t scrape up the money to do so. (Buying books, DVDs and eating out all the time coupled with a sucky pay will do that to you.) After getting my back pay from my previous job and getting a better paid… Continue reading Long live the Laptop!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[26,25,9,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}