I’m changing my mind, maybe I don’t need an iPod nano just yet, what I really need is a kickass backpack for my laptop.
While the Mobile Edge Premium Backpacks below are exceptionally nice, the $79.99 price tag is a bit much for me. The Case Logic NBP-3 (see right) on the other hand is cheaper and it’s available here.
What do you guys think? Any suggestions?
Ok I’ve been busy setting myself up with the new laptop. You would think it’s a ready and go out of the package, but if you’re me you gotta reinstall from scratch, then setup Apache, PHP and MySQL for offline testing environment, then install WinDVD, GoogleTalk, Picasa, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc etc.. it goes on forever. So, after a about 4-5hrs I’m now done setting up the bugger. Yeah I know it’s been downgraded from “baby” to “bugger” but it’s still an amazing mean machine and I’m loving it. Everything is great, it’s even a little better (performance-wise and design-wise) than what I expected in the beginning. The only problem I see imediately is that the partitions were setup a little weird, with about 3GB of space wasted in a hidden partition called PQSERVICE. I have yet to find out what it is. If you know about this please fill me in. I’d just delete it and reinstall from scratch again but I’ll give this a few weeks of heavy load work before I do that. Norton just hit me (a second ago) with an unfixable MBR virus warning. The laptop is brand new!! WTF?!! I reformatted it a few hours ago. Anyway, I’ll dig into that later. I’ll post pics later tomorrow. So far so good besides the minor bugs.
Update (9/20/2005): PQSERVICE turns out to be Acer’s recovery partition to reset the laptop to factory state, but since Acer provided recovery CDs with the package, the partition is redundant and can be removed if you need to reclaim the wasted space.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=11584
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=62900
The only problem left is that Acer’s default recovery image comes with Windows XP formatted in FAT32, which is lame. So if I wanted to have Windows XP with an NTFS partition I need to grab a new copy of Windows, which means more money to the devil’s company! 
I’m going to make this my next mission in life.
After over nine years in exile I’m finally getting myself a LAPTOP!!
*w00t*
Eric purchased it from TigerDirect a few days ago. He should have it in a few days to test it, drop it from his 2nd story window, etc. He’s coming back here sometime in September, so I have about two months to come up with the dough. It’s only $599.99 after a $50 rebate but it boasts great powers:
Well maybe not so great but it’s decent enough to take me travelling the world. It’s about time take a step forward into my long awaited world domination plan.
I’m still a few dollars short (a few hundred actually) so if you’d like to make a donation I’ll be sure to grant you a meaningful position in my new world order.
If you’re tired of the boring old-fashioned way of writing try the PenAgain™, the comfort-focused natural pen designed for a tension-free writing experience. I’m not fond of handwriting (what’s a freaking computer for?) but that girl’s fingernails sure are attractive! 
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