Every time I want to browse the internet these day I have go to the university or public library to do so. Since I killed my land line to avoid pesky bill collectors and telemarketers, I don’t have access to dialup or DSL anymore. Of course there is still cable and wi fi. However my nearly 6 year old 1.7 ghz Dell desktop is pretty much outdated and not fit for the status quo in cyberspace. With the sh-t money I am making selling shoes I hardly feel like ponying out 40 dollars a month for cable. So I am pretty much contemplating on getting a laptop and leach wi-fi from local coffee shops and bookstores. I am also spitting distance from the University of Arizona and wi fi is available all over the college campus. Sure I won’t have the luxury of sitting on my can in the comfort of my own home, but sometimes you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
PC or Mac?
For the longest time I wanted to break down and get an apple, although they are substantially more expensive than its distance cousin, so I probably will end up buying (you guessed it). Also I want a 17 inch screen. The i-mac laptops I have seen are not only pricey, but tiny as well.
I was recently looking at a Dell Inspiron 1720/1721 17.1″ Wide screen with the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor, Although I have seen some posts stating they aren’t very gamer friendly like the dell xps’s, but those suckers run anywhere in the neighborhood of $1900 bucks! 
At any rate here is a Dell Inspiron 1720 that is just under a thousand dollars…
If I hold out a little longer perhaps I can get something more beefy. I surely don’t want to make a mistake like the one I made 5 years ago, deciding on a humble celeron processor with cheap integrated video and sound. Then again, I don’t want to pay a freaking fortune neither. I am poor
Posted on a Tuesday as Computers at 6:06 PM MST ( 1 year ago )
wastes a lot of valuable space.