New Purchase
Thursday, May 15th, 2008So, after having the same old desktop for five years I’ve finally decided to make a new purchase. I bought a new-to-me (refurbed) dell inspiron 1525. I “built” a laptop with the same options and found that I ended up saving $300+ by buying a refurb. I would be skeptical, but a guy at work already bought one and had a good experience.
Speaking of work, that has something to do with why I am buying a personal laptop. Things have gotten so bad at the Big H that we can’t even surf to google.com without being logged into the corporate VPN, where all of our traffic is controlled, monitored, and scrutinized. Even the guy 3 levels above me in management does not carry a company owned laptop because he states that it is too hard to get any work done. I’m following suit and buying my own as well…
Overall, I’m pretty stoked about the purchase. I currently have an Ahtlon XP with a gig of RAM. I’m moving up to a Core2 duo with 2 gigs of RAM, etc. After all, I’m a techie and deserve to have a somewhat modern piece of computer hardware, right?