Brews you can use

Well, laptop #3 has bitten the dust. It at least had an entertaining (and well-traveled) life, if a somewhat mundane end. I’d had this one since early 2005; it was a nice little find — 12″ screen, weighed less than 2 pounds. While it was still under warranty, I had to send it back to the manufacturer (in Taiwan) twice for screen replacements. On the second trip, the case was pretty nastily damaged, but still held together through several trips, being thrown to the floor by a toddler, and several adventures.

Until today. I opened the laptop and heard a sickening crack as one of the screen hinges didn’t move, and instead split the base of the screen about halfway across. Crap. Laptops aren’t exactly useful if you can’t open them…

I’d said several times that, after 6 years of running and tinkering with FreeBSD on whatever Intel laptop I could get cheap, that my next laptop will be a mac. Jess is doing some triumphal “he’s been assimilated” blogging at the moment. I’m still getting used to the new macbook

So far, so good. Here’s hoping <raises virtual drink> I can keep from destroying this one.

(And I’m not ruling out FreeBSD under parallels quite yet )