I Love Laptops

   In the short time span that has elapsed between when my last laptop crapped out and this evening, I had nearly completely forgotten how much I love a good laptop.

   400 bones later I remember. Yes, thanks to showing up at Office Depot fifteen minutes before it opened yesterday morning, I was able to snag one of the four Toshiba laptops they had advertised at $399.99 (after two rebates).

   The first laptop I ever had was one given to me by my first employer, and it too was a Toshiba. I soon fell in love with the feel of the keyboard and the freedom to move about from network connection to network connection (yes, this was in the pre-wireless days!)

   I eventually bought several more, cheaper, Toshiba laptops, and enjoyed them while they lasted. I eventually migrated to a Gateway which served me well for several years until it too met its demise.

   I recall that when one of the laptops would finally die we'd buy the next one that was available for around $1200. It always had a Celeron or some similar processor and neither a ton of RAM nor a plethora of GB of storage but it seemed to work fine for our purposes.

   Eventually the day came when we ponied up the scratch to invest in an 802.11b wireless access point and two wireless cards for our two laptops. WOW - the freedom to work from the couch, bed, or the back porch was truly liberating!

   And now here I sit on the couch, not a cable in sight, with another Toshiba Satellite, this one about 2000 times better than my last, with a Pentium Dual-Core processor, a meg of RAM, 180GB hard drive, a beautiful 14.5 inch screen, built-in 802.11g wireless connectivity, a wireless mouse, and yes, that good old Toshiba keyboard I love so much! And for the bargain price of $399.99. Gotta love it!