Pidgin: Invisible Buddies + Some Thinking

Pidgin: Invisible Buddies

This is me amused with little things.

On a side-note, I think it’s about time to get a new laptop. It’s not that my current laptop needs more juice. It works just fine for my needs and brought me great fortune in the past 4 years from college requirements to enterprise software.

Fedora 7 just reached its end of life and I get this OCD that I have outdated software. With the urge to upgrade but no place to backup my files (strange, all of my drives are full), I think a new laptop is the answer.

An extra hard disk would be a lot cheaper but I’m weighing the extra convenience that I’ll get with a more modern laptop. For instance, if I had a newer wireless card with 802.11g (yes, my laptop is 802.11b!), I’ll be using drivers with WPA support and higher transfer rates. With a DVD combo drive (vs a CD-ROM drive), better RAM, graphics card, and processor, makes me convinced that it’s, err, about time.

I’ll be getting an HP/Compaq because all of our laptops at home that carry the same brand are still alive. Also, it won’t be anything fancy. Just a boring normal laptop and it won’t be a tablet like I wished before. The TX2000 and TX2500 are available locally though.

There will be one busy weekend soon.

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    and if you can get a portable with a wireless N, that would be better hehehe.. Good luck.

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