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New hardware, old hardware.
Mar. 16th, 2011 10:08 pmOut of nessessity (job has me going to a seminar in Tysons Corner, and has a requirement) I've bought a new, middle-of-the-line laptop. An Asus UL80JT from Newegg, about $650.
Which, considering the monster gaming laptop, the Asus G51vx, which was about $1300 when I got it nearly 2 years ago and is still rather good... and the Asus N10J, a netbook with NVidia Geforce 9300M graphics built before the ION chipset came to being... and a desktop that is at least three years old now and is due for me to rebuild it's Gentoo distribution... and the 2008 iMac which is keeping its own.
It makes me wonder if I have too much hardware.
The new laptop would replace the netbook, aka firetiger. I got it for $700, and with depreciation but a SSD upgrade, it's probably worth more like $500. Still, I (and the family) could use the money. So the N10J will get wiped and sold with it's origional 160 gig drive as a USB drive and the copy of Win7 I bought for it. I may throw in a burned CD of KUbuntu. :D
The gaming laptop, sandra, will get trimmed down and swapped around a bit. It's got two 320 gig HD's in it, but the #1 drive has Win7 and Gentoo on it. I can transfer my data to it easy enough and replace my main rig, redwolf (email's on a small ARM server, wireheadn). Slap Kubuntu on it and give it to Dad, keep the monitor, keyboard, etc. The Mac, tobias, will get a second screen (although it's much bigger).
The new laptop? I think that'll be named redwolf as well. Most of what sandra has now will go on the new redwolf, and I'll move some data around via wireheadn.
Which, considering the monster gaming laptop, the Asus G51vx, which was about $1300 when I got it nearly 2 years ago and is still rather good... and the Asus N10J, a netbook with NVidia Geforce 9300M graphics built before the ION chipset came to being... and a desktop that is at least three years old now and is due for me to rebuild it's Gentoo distribution... and the 2008 iMac which is keeping its own.
It makes me wonder if I have too much hardware.
The new laptop would replace the netbook, aka firetiger. I got it for $700, and with depreciation but a SSD upgrade, it's probably worth more like $500. Still, I (and the family) could use the money. So the N10J will get wiped and sold with it's origional 160 gig drive as a USB drive and the copy of Win7 I bought for it. I may throw in a burned CD of KUbuntu. :D
The gaming laptop, sandra, will get trimmed down and swapped around a bit. It's got two 320 gig HD's in it, but the #1 drive has Win7 and Gentoo on it. I can transfer my data to it easy enough and replace my main rig, redwolf (email's on a small ARM server, wireheadn). Slap Kubuntu on it and give it to Dad, keep the monitor, keyboard, etc. The Mac, tobias, will get a second screen (although it's much bigger).
The new laptop? I think that'll be named redwolf as well. Most of what sandra has now will go on the new redwolf, and I'll move some data around via wireheadn.
