A new shineh

A new laptop today. It was slightly more than I meant to spend but it should last a good amount of time before it starts to feel clunky which should offset the expense. My little Alienware m11x acquitted itself awfully well up until the point where the hinges for the screen fell apart. Up until then I was prepared to overlook the fact that I'd really bought the thing to function as an adjunct to a desktop computer rather than my primary machine. The new computer is a 15" laptop so rather less wieldy in the drag it around the house sense but still perfectly luggable (I'm typing this in bed) and possessed of a keyboard which is *much* nicer to use. It's sadly not backlit, which is something I've learned to love in keyboards but other than that it's delightfully usable. I was also hoping to get something with a 1920x1200 resolution screen but that would have pushed the purchase price far closer to $2000 than I could stomach. So this is new and shiny and should provide plenty of computational grunt for the forseeable future. I did twitch a little shelling out the money but some things are needful and I use my computer enough that I can justify spending a little extra on it, particularly given that I've spent so little on most other things. My only other recent expense even measurable in hundreds of dollars is my roller derby gear and that's *definitely* been worth paying for.

So back to living quietly. There's a significant quotient of my derby team heading to Adelaide this coming weekend for The Great Southern Slam and it was with a certain regret that I decided I couldn't justify tagging along even if I could have wrangled the leave, (which I probably could have) The only other major expense this is is a big one...I have to get myself a car around the end of the year. I don't especially want to but there's not really a way around it.

Still...shiiiiney. *strokes it* I might have to install a game on it just to see how it behaves.