New Laptop
I bought a new laptop a few days ago and was spending quite a lot of time to get it up and running. With the new MS Vista OS, it took some getting use to with some of my older programs not working. Anyway it is mostly running now.
Before I finally decided on my laptop, I did some research on cost vs performance. Several weeks ago, I wrote about how much are our gadgets costing us. Although I use my laptop extensively for work i.e. generate income, my previous laptop cost me $ 2,200 a little over five years ago. Being a first time laptop purchaser then, I wanted the laptop to last as long as possible. So I got one that’s design for business. Better built etc. Over the last few years, price of laptops have gotten cheaper and I notice that the quality of many brand name consumer laptops have improved a lot in terms of sturdiness. Even most Dell computers are not really built for heavy duty work except for a certain range.
So I did a bit more research and finally settled for a home user type Core 2 middle range processor that cost me $1,140. Instead of buying the higher price, higher range and squeezing the life out of the laptop later on, I decided to get a this laptop with the intention of it lasting 3 years. Cost per year of use for my first laptop is $ 440 and cost per year for this laptop will be $380. In order to squeeze the life out from the first unit, I had to upgrade the hard disk which was failing on the 4th year, so actually the cost per year of use is much higher than $440.
So far I’m happy with the new unit except the way the OS which truly is bloat ware.
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