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Well, I have had this old chap for about two years now (and it was not state of the art when I bought it, I just needed a laptop). But today I'll get my new laptop. Finally.
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Two years ? Poor nature... The ratio "pollution caused" / "operation life" is tending more and more towards infinity...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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All set to welcome the new family member? Make sure you got some nice pr0n collection. It brings good luck.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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That's why he needed to replacing it - the old one was full... 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Well... cloud storage makes it possible to expand the collection until infinity 
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I really can't recommend storing anything important in the cloud!
It's ok for stuff you don't mind losing: birthdays, source code, financial details and so on. But important stuff should be stored where you have control over it, and fast access. Gentlemens Special Interest material fits this category.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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OriginalGriff wrote: you have control over it, and fast access.
So you can erase it fast?
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djj55 wrote: So you can erase it fast?
A good man has a good hard drive encryption. Thank you BitLocker!
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A good man has nobody who thinks to be entitled to snoop around in his things.
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CDP1802 wrote:
A good man has nobody who thinks to be entitled
to snoop around in his things.
Well... there are several people who think they are entitled to steal other peoples stuff. I don't want anyone to steal my "special" data 
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As hhistory taught us: There is always a possibility. It is just sometimes hard to find.
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Is it really rubbish, or can it just not handle all the latest bloat?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It has a goddamn AMD processor and needs about half an infinty to boot. It is not rubbish, it became too slow for my purposes (and I am not a gamer).
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Installed Windows 8 on it and passed it over to my dad. And I enjoy a super fast new ultrabook.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: Installed Windows 8 on it and passed it over to my dad
Times sure have changed, in this computing era.
Now we have "hand-me-ups".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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