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Timing Could be Better: Tech Buy
Mar. 9th, 2012 01:12 pmMy laptop has been becoming increasingly unreliable, and yesterday ate a bunch of files which I'm going to have to restore from the backup, which itself is on the broken server...
Anyway, this morning M's machine decided to turn off during the update of her iPhone (my, that was hilarious!) - and as that's a 5 year old Asus, I decided that I had to get something more reliable for work (basically the entire company is pretty much run off my laptop) and I need to strip my existing laptop back to the bones and rebuild.
So I've been forced into buying a new machine. I've had a hankering for an Ultrabook for a while. I travel a lot and lugging a 2.5kg machine + power supply around all the time is bad for the back. After a lot of looking around I've been sold on a Toshiba Portege Ultrabook - I played with 3, a Samsung Series 9, an Acer and finally the Tosh. I got sold on the Tosh, because, even though it's only an i3, it had a full sized VGA and HDMI output, 3 USB ports and ethernet ports.
I'm now looking at the prep work for porting everything across to the new machine, which involves a degree of consolidation of 3 years worth of files on the HDD of the laptop - which is not something I'm looking forward to.
Anyway, this morning M's machine decided to turn off during the update of her iPhone (my, that was hilarious!) - and as that's a 5 year old Asus, I decided that I had to get something more reliable for work (basically the entire company is pretty much run off my laptop) and I need to strip my existing laptop back to the bones and rebuild.
So I've been forced into buying a new machine. I've had a hankering for an Ultrabook for a while. I travel a lot and lugging a 2.5kg machine + power supply around all the time is bad for the back. After a lot of looking around I've been sold on a Toshiba Portege Ultrabook - I played with 3, a Samsung Series 9, an Acer and finally the Tosh. I got sold on the Tosh, because, even though it's only an i3, it had a full sized VGA and HDMI output, 3 USB ports and ethernet ports.
I'm now looking at the prep work for porting everything across to the new machine, which involves a degree of consolidation of 3 years worth of files on the HDD of the laptop - which is not something I'm looking forward to.
