August 26, 2005
Going Portable
Well, it’s kinda funny—my wife was concerned about how much frustration I’ve been experiencing in regards to, er, shall we say, the slow down I’ve been experiencing and the limitations at the ‘MO. So she says to me, “do we need to get you a laptop so you can get stuff done at ‘MO?”
So, I went to Best Buy, put about half down and the rest on credit and got a pretty decent laptop. I ended up getting an HP Pavilion dv1311se from Best Buy. As much as I always swore I’d never buy a computer from there, it ended up being something I could afford and would meet most of the needs.
The one drawback is that it’s XP Home Edition and I’m gonna have to invest in another OEM edition of XP Pro so I can run IIS 5.1 on it for my web application development (PHP and ASP.NET). For now I’ll just use something else like Apache or Xerver until I get the upgrade.
It’s a pretty decent laptop I think. Lightweight and seems to have much of what I need. It was a pain in the ass removing all the crappy software that it came with, but despite that, I’m slowly getting settled in.
August 26, 2005, 12:06 am
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Jamison said,
August 26, 2005 @ 5:56 am
Congrats dude!
Michael said,
August 26, 2005 @ 7:28 pm
Heh, congrats, I’ve put myself $675 in debt over something that has no inate ability to retain its value.
Nah, it’s nice to be mobile now and not tied to a PC at a desk. I love the free WIFI at Dunn Bros—weve got one in Inver Grove Heights, about a 12-14 minute drive. I wish Caribou had free WIFI—but lets face it, their wonderful coffee isn’t quite enough to make me wanna pay for WIFI access.