The Laughing Wolf

Some Computer Thoughts

My Titanium PowerBook has been a very good computer, but it has had a long and rough life. I have used it as my desktop unit, my travel unit, and probably for a few other things. This has led to some problems starting to show up with the display (minor for now), battery life issues, and to the interesting noises coming from the hard drive. With luck, I will have a chance to do something about it in about two weeks. That said, the question is what to do?

The obvious solution is a new laptop, but that is expensive and this is still basically a good unit. My current thought is to look at getting a desktop unit, maybe a 20" I-Mac decked out, which would actually be the same or less than a new deluxe top-of-the-line laptop. Then, put a bit more into a new hard drive for the current laptop, a new battery, maybe a memory upgrade, and end up with two good computers for about what one really good new laptop would cost. Without the constant use, the display issue is not a problem on the laptop. A good I-Mac or G5 with good display would give me a unit for home as well.

Thoughts or suggestions?

LW