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May. 5th, 2012 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabremeisterJust been shopping for my sister's birthday present for her party tomorrow (yes, I know, last minute). While I was in town, I saw the Curry's Digital (Dixons as-was) was having a closing down sale, so I went in. I came out with a Toshiba Satellite L750D laptop for something like £200 less than market price.
Haven't even taken it out of the box yet. It's got great specs, Win7 Home Premium, a built-in webcam and 3 USB ports. Thing is, I like XP, and I've got a perfectly serviceable IBM Thinkpad T40 on which to do all the compter-type stuff I could want. The Toshiba doesn't have a modem port (easy enough to get a plug-in I suppose, when the time comes to need to use one), and I already have a webcam. But y'know, the Thinkpad's getting on a bit, it's a bit slow, only 2 USB ports, and one's taken up with a portable hard drive. I'm thinking, either I can set up and use the new Toshiba, say goodbye to the Thinkpad - or I can keep the Thinkpad and sell the Toshiba on eBay for nearer to full market price.
What do you lot think?
Haven't even taken it out of the box yet. It's got great specs, Win7 Home Premium, a built-in webcam and 3 USB ports. Thing is, I like XP, and I've got a perfectly serviceable IBM Thinkpad T40 on which to do all the compter-type stuff I could want. The Toshiba doesn't have a modem port (easy enough to get a plug-in I suppose, when the time comes to need to use one), and I already have a webcam. But y'know, the Thinkpad's getting on a bit, it's a bit slow, only 2 USB ports, and one's taken up with a portable hard drive. I'm thinking, either I can set up and use the new Toshiba, say goodbye to the Thinkpad - or I can keep the Thinkpad and sell the Toshiba on eBay for nearer to full market price.
What do you lot think?
