{"id":195,"date":"2007-06-11T21:47:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T04:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=195"},"modified":"2007-06-11T22:07:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T05:07:26","slug":"laptop-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Laptop love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool, something else went right! After much <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=157\">wailing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=175\">gnashing of teeth<\/a>, I finally ordered a new laptop from Dell a few weeks ago; it was the brand-new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/content\/products\/productdetails.aspx\/latit_d630?c=us&amp;l=en&amp;s=bsd&amp;cs=04\" target=\"_blank\">D630<\/a> model and it looked like it was going to take a month. That would at least get it to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/e3expo.com\/login\/login.aspx?redirect=%2fIndex.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">E3<\/a>&#8230;but not before the pre-E3 stuff that takes place this week. Well, imagine my thrill when Dell shipped my laptop a week ahead of schedule on Sunday night (?!) and it arrived on my desk today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very happy with the choice so far; it&#8217;s the first laptop I&#8217;ve ever bought new, so it&#8217;s cool to see things like &#8220;battery life: 8 hours&#8221; (and that&#8217;s with only one of the two batteries! Hello plane rides!). I&#8217;m also very happy that, by running a lean &amp; mean existing laptop, I was able to strip all the relevant data, locate the core apps to install, and get it all running in a matter of hours. Turns out Kat was right about all that &#8220;organization&#8221; bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>Time to sell the old notebook &#8212; works great, just too heavy. Today I lugged it for the last time, in a backpack&#8230;uphill&#8230;on crutches. Again, great desktop replacement for someone who doesn&#8217;t use laptops the way I need to use laptops. If anybody needs an <a href=\"http:\/\/pcworld.about.com\/news\/Jun302003id111390.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Inspiron 5100<\/a>, talk to me before I put it on eBay or Craigslist or something. It&#8217;s got a 2.4 GHz P4, my seal of approval&#8230;and a new 60GB hard drive instead of its stock 30GB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool, something else went right! After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I finally ordered a new laptop from Dell a few weeks ago; it was the brand-new D630 model and it looked like it was going to take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}