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Lighthawk wrote:Well my back up laptop has now joined my primary one in electronics heaven. This is good news actually as now I have no excuse not to buy a shiney new upgrade to replace the slow, outdated pos I was using. The only real downside is now I'm stuck with just my itouch at work until I do buy that replacement.

You can get a real good one for under $800. With a few compromises you can get one under $500.

Tyyr wrote:

Lighthawk wrote:Well my back up laptop has now joined my primary one in electronics heaven. This is good news actually as now I have no excuse not to buy a shiney new upgrade to replace the slow, outdated pos I was using. The only real downside is now I'm stuck with just my itouch at work until I do buy that replacement.

You can get a real good one for under $800. With a few compromises you can get one under $500.

I'm looking in the 500-700 range. I don't need anything top of the line, or even really good. All I used my laptop for was web browsing, video, and word processing. I'd be tempted to get a cheap little netbook, but the keyboards are too small for my hands.

My wife's got a netbook and does pretty much what you want to do. She likes it and its easy to cart around but for me the keyboard is too cramped. I got my current laptop a year ago for $760 and it's done great. It's not one of those 17"+ monsters but it gets the job done.

We picked up an ASUS line laptop that was not the top of the line i5 processor and got it for less than $500. Does everything we need and is pretty well built. Does not feel cheap or flimsy at all.

I'd look out for an 10.1 or 11 inch netbook, the compact size of a netbook but it normally has a full size keyboard (albeit minus the numpad). I found a fairly competent little netbook, by the look of it anyway, in a 11" Acer Aspire (The Brand I'd implore you to go with, certainly the best we've owned) with a 1.7ghz processor, 250gb hardrive and 2gb RAM (plus the added benefit of windows 7 home premium) for £429. I think that's fairly good, £265 looks fairly good from my perspective.

I saw an Acer Inspire laptop with a 3.2 GHz Intel Duocore, 320 GB HDD, and 4GB RAM in Costco for $599.

Nice laptop. It seems you pay a lot for compact laptops. Mine, since my mother likes shiny, has a tiny little Ferrari badge on the back (since it's marketed as an Acer Ferrari. basically an Aspire with an annoying theme you have to delete all the time) and it cost nearly £400.

Went to the Pyramids, Sphynix and Cairo Museum today.

AWESOME

Standing right at the base of the biggest Pyramid it is amazing to think it was bult by hand and basic machines in just 20 years. And the fact that it is still in such good shape, to see it when it would have still had its marble shell on would have been amazing.

I also got to go inside the smaller of the 3 pyramids. DOwn a 120 meter long shaft right into the burial chanber. I also managed to work my way into the crawl space above the tomb and see the graphitie left by hundreds of years of tourists.

The Sphynix was cool, very erroded though. Also they have done a lot of restoration on it which I am not to sure how I feel about...

And the Cario Museum. Amazing in the fact it has so many amazing treausres. Disapointing in the fact it is a dark, run down, haphazard 100 year old building.

Befoer going there I was always in favour of all Egyptian artifacts staying in Eygpt and sometimes going on tour. But if thats the way they choose to display them... Give them to Berlin and London. Treasures that would be put in prized place in any museum and left in ratty glass cases in rotting wood frames.

The pieces are amzing, King Tuts mask and coffins are mind blowing. But the Physical museum is a joke.

But over all amazing day.

Sounds amazing, Teaos.

And I used to feel the same way about keeping artifacts "home," until I saw the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC of Carter's finds.

Do you ever go back into your threads and read what you used to post, thinking "what?" I was such an attitude filled little shit through the Daystrome thread.

Reliant121 wrote:Do you ever go back into your threads and read what you used to post, thinking "what?" I was such an attitude filled little s**t through the Daystrome thread.

I've noticed I'm a lot nicer since I've joined. Its sad really, all this time away from harsher work and I'm turning into a hippie like most the people here.

Deepcrush wrote:I've noticed I'm a lot nicer since I've joined.

We haven't, if it makes you feel any better.

It doesn't.

Come now, Seafort - you're going to hurt Deep's feelings. You know how emotional he gets.

Aye - he usually ends up looking like one of my previous avs.