My Birthday Present
Posted by Nathan & Valerie at 1:05 PM |
My 28th birthday is Tuesday.
Getting older mean two things:
1. your present/gifts get more expensive
and
2. birthdays aren't that exciting anymore, because if you want to buy
something when its not your birthday you can go ahead and buy it.
This year I know what I'm getting. A new laptop. A Dell laptop. This
will be my first Dell computer. It is a Dell Vostro which recently came
out. Through a friend here in Miami I was given a link to
www.slickdeals.net which gave the user a $303 discount on the Vostro
1500, dropping the price pre-tax to $599! Not too shabby for a laptop
with: Pentium 4 core duo processor (1.4 Ghz), 120 GB hard drive, 1 Gig
of RAM (easily upgradable to 2 Gigs), Nvidia 128 MB video card, 8x
cd/dvd burner, 4 USB 2.0 ports, 15" screen, and a partridge in a pear tree.
It does come with Windows Vista though, so I will have to get used to
that. Val's work laptop uses Vista and someday soon all PCs will use
Vista, so why not now?
I'm excited mostly because I will have a much faster laptop with 4x the
storage capacity!
My HP tablet tc1100 has a 30 GB hard drive (18 GB of which belongs to
mp3s) and only spins at 4200 revolutions per minute. This new one will
spin at 5400 RPM, unfortunately there was no option for a 7200 RPM hard
drive in the deal.
So I got the Vostro for a total of $640 (free shipping) and will off-set
the cost of it by selling my tablet on ebay or craigslist once I
transfer all my programs and files to my new laptop. I have seen the
same model of my tablet PC on ebay for $350 so if I was to sell mine for the same price, it would make the total price on my Vostro come to $290. Tough deal for the specs mentioned above!
Also, the same friend here in Miami got me playing Battlefield 2 with him in a LAN at his place and decided to buy me the game for my birthday ($20) so we can play over the Net on a private server. Brings me back to my days of playing Counter-Strike - which was fun but took up all my time. Very addicting to play with other humans in cyber space...so now I am just reserving my online gaming to bots. Unless of course I'm playing with a friend on a private server and even then we're on the same team and playing versus bots.
So that's my birthday gift(s). I'm excited. The PC should be here on
Tuesday. If it is, I won't be here to get it and will have to pick it
up on Wednesday - Val and I will be in Key West on my birthday.
Getting older mean two things:
1. your present/gifts get more expensive
and
2. birthdays aren't that exciting anymore, because if you want to buy
something when its not your birthday you can go ahead and buy it.
This year I know what I'm getting. A new laptop. A Dell laptop. This
will be my first Dell computer. It is a Dell Vostro which recently came
out. Through a friend here in Miami I was given a link to
www.slickdeals.net which gave the user a $303 discount on the Vostro1500, dropping the price pre-tax to $599! Not too shabby for a laptop
with: Pentium 4 core duo processor (1.4 Ghz), 120 GB hard drive, 1 Gig
of RAM (easily upgradable to 2 Gigs), Nvidia 128 MB video card, 8x
cd/dvd burner, 4 USB 2.0 ports, 15" screen, and a partridge in a pear tree.
It does come with Windows Vista though, so I will have to get used to
that. Val's work laptop uses Vista and someday soon all PCs will use
Vista, so why not now?
I'm excited mostly because I will have a much faster laptop with 4x the
storage capacity!
My HP tablet tc1100 has a 30 GB hard drive (18 GB of which belongs tomp3s) and only spins at 4200 revolutions per minute. This new one will
spin at 5400 RPM, unfortunately there was no option for a 7200 RPM hard
drive in the deal.
So I got the Vostro for a total of $640 (free shipping) and will off-set
the cost of it by selling my tablet on ebay or craigslist once I
transfer all my programs and files to my new laptop. I have seen the
same model of my tablet PC on ebay for $350 so if I was to sell mine for the same price, it would make the total price on my Vostro come to $290. Tough deal for the specs mentioned above!
Also, the same friend here in Miami got me playing Battlefield 2 with him in a LAN at his place and decided to buy me the game for my birthday ($20) so we can play over the Net on a private server. Brings me back to my days of playing Counter-Strike - which was fun but took up all my time. Very addicting to play with other humans in cyber space...so now I am just reserving my online gaming to bots. Unless of course I'm playing with a friend on a private server and even then we're on the same team and playing versus bots.So that's my birthday gift(s). I'm excited. The PC should be here on
Tuesday. If it is, I won't be here to get it and will have to pick it
up on Wednesday - Val and I will be in Key West on my birthday.
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2 Comments:
Congrats on the new laptop. Wow, I had to call John in here to explain to me why we had to pay so much more for our laptop so he could play BF2. What is your id? He plays as Gen_John_L_B
Vista is cool, but John had to set up a dual-boot with XP in order to run BF2 better.
Now Val can be a BF2 widow with me!
Happy gaming,
Becky
Happy Birthday, sorry I missed it. All is well here in AZ, but it will be sweet to chill in Cali, i think i am 49 percent in. jodi
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