Got a Laptop

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So I got a new laptop at work a few weeks ago, and through a program at work I got to buy my old work one back. They wiped it pretty clean but I now own my first personally-owned laptop.

It's not super powerful or anything, but I'm in the process of installing Steam (this is the one that wouldn't play Civ 5), so I should be able to play some of the games that aren't big resource hogs.
 
Welcome to the club! I've had mine for a little over 2 years now and I can't see myself ever going back to a tower.
 
I had a netbook for the last two years. It had a solid state drive (instead of your typical hard drive) which made it really durable. I loved the size and durability, but it has the slowest SSD ever.

Fortunately, my friend sold me his laptop super cheap (just happened to be my old laptop before his, too) so as of this week, I'm much happier with my performance.

I like towers because they are fun to build, but I love laptops because I can take them pretty much anywhere.
 
I bought a Thinkpad right around the time Lenovo was taking over IBM or whatever, and it's been a good go anywhere computer, but it's far from a gaming machine. I think it'll play L4D on the lowest settings...maybe...but I never got TF2 to run on it.

I also got a little Fujitsu tablet netbook a year or so ago when woot had them dirt cheap. Not bad, but that thing is slow as fuck. I figured it was because XP was too much of a hog, so I put Ubuntu on there and it didn't help. I need to check but I think the RAM is already maxed out (1GB, I think - lame), but perhaps an older version of Ubuntu will run a bit better if I get bored enough to take the time.

Really, it just sits down by the TV if I need to look up something real quick and either can't get to my primary PC or just don't feel like going upstairs :p
 
I wonder if my laptop will play Myst V. Since that one was PC only I never got around to it when it came out...
 
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