I don’t want to prolong the death of this laptop
January 9th, 2008 • chatter
While it’s not really dying, the battery is just about shot. I only have xchat, a single terminal open, and Flock with a few tabs open and squeeze out a little over an hour of life now, great for school since classes last over 2 hours. Sure I could pony up and pay Dell another $120 for an extended battery that’s been reported by numerous customers to have a shelf life of a year. I could deal with another year but Macworld is just right around the corner and I’m hoping they’ll finally announce a damn sub-notebook MBP. It’s a stretch but it could happen, it’s been in the rumor mill for years and should be coming to fruition soonish. I mean, I was discussing the specifics of a widescreen iPod a la iPhone/iPod Touch 4 years ago with a friend at work (we had the form factor pegged but not much else) so a sub-notebook sized MBP has been cookin’ for just as long.
I’ve been running both Debian and Ubuntu on this laptop since I got it so I managed to more than squeeze out the money I paid for it but I’m really looking for something new and shiny. I don’t want a 15″ MBP because I just don’t need the extra bulk, I like my 12″ laptop so I’m looking for a similar size. The Asus Eee is a tad small but there’s little advantage to it over my current laptop although lugging around a 7″ sub-note for various meetings and class would be super sweet.
Waiting for Apple to fulfill rumors sucks but so does a dying battery. Now I’m off to find more Web 2.0 goodies for school.