Compu Freak

I unpacked! I went to the bank! I did laundry! All of it!

I've researched and found prospective rooms to sublet in the Loo, I've found jobs to which I can apply AND I managed to find computers with nubby mice! NUUUBBYYYYY!

I know you're wondering what the hell I'm talking about, so here:



This is a nubby mouse. The more professional term would be "TrackPoint pointing device/stick", (but who really wants to say that?), and the more immature term would be "nipple mouse" (tee hee). So this is the thing with which I have a mild obsession. It is far, FAR superior to the touchpad *shudder* and "allows a user to move the cursor large distances without the need to pause to reposition their finger". Ha. That's the thing I hate about touchpads; it's the fact that you need to lift your finger all the time. The discontinuity in the motion is at odds with my soul.

So you're thinking, Problem solved! She found a laptop with the goddamnned nubby mouse so now she can buy one and shut up about it already. Alas! Not so! The problem is, ThinkPads are the only notebooks I can find with nubby mice and they cost hundreds to a thousand more than any other lappy I've looked at. I can buy an Acer with pretty good specs for $800. An amazing Toshiba would only cost me $1000. But ThinkPads! Dear goodness, if I went for the X Series (thinnest! and lightest!) I'd be paying about $2250(!!), and that's for the economy model. I don't know about you, but there's nothing economical about that number. Like, hel-LO! I'm a broke-ass student here, living off the earnings of my campus jobs from last semester and I need this lappy because I've got a life on the go (a CHEAP life on the go, mind you) and I'd like you to be a little bit more sensitive to that. I mean, I guess I don't HAVE to buy the X Series models...I could always go for the...*choke* R Series or something. But they're no walk in the Affordable Park either.

And there's another thing: The MacBook. I suppose this would be the happy medium price-wise. But it's not happy at all because THERE'S NO NUBBY MOUSE. Then again, it is a Mac. It's soooo shiiiny. And sleeeeek. And you can't really go wrong with a student discount and a free iPod. See! IBM, or Lenovo, why can't you do something like that, huh? HUH? Humph.

So there's my dilemma people. I can buy a well-priced Toshiba lappy with great specs at the local FutureShop. I can spend a bit more and get a MacBook (and an iPod). I can spend even more and get a ThinkPad. With the nubby mouse.

Why can't someone out there make a nice, shiny lappy with a 2GHz Intel Centrino Duo processor, a 100GB hard drive, with 1 GB of RAM, a good sized (14, 15"?) TFT LCD screen that has at least 5 hours of battery life, a beautiful nubby mouse, that weighs only about 4 lbs and costs about $1000 or less? WHY? Come on people, work with me here, work with me. You'll get one super-duper happy customer if you do. Uh, hello? Hello?

What to do? Calling all compu-geeks! I need advice.

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In other news, I managed to get up around 12pm today, so I'm one hour closer to rising when it's still morning. Go me!

I also managed to upload all 1227+ of the photos and videos that were taken in the last 7 weeks and organize them all into neat little folders. The process of picking the good ones to show you have started, but it's nowhere near complete yet and my weekend is looking a little busy. How's Monday for you?
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