Borrow one when you really need one.
Fortunately we do not have puppies, although, our children can be destructive when it comes to household electronics.
Borrowing won’t due, especially when it comes to college studies. I do appreciate the reality check.
My Dell is behaving better than my first laptop did, a compaq/HP amd64 monstrosity that worked well as a way to keep my lap warm. The power regulator on the board crapped out after I bought a new battery for it. It had an Nvidia chipset. I went with a newer, cheaper, but not bleeding-edge dell machine that wasn’t rediculously heavy and sips power. It’s business-oriented and portable, not a gaming laptop. It has an intel core duo cpu and an intel chipset that didn’t get bad reviews on the web (not too surprising given that Intel has made successive generations of cpus/chipsets forever and nvidia has only recently branched out into general purpose cpus and chipsets). If I could verify whether or not a company like ASUS designed/contract manufactured my Dell model, i would have bought it even faster. As for Li-ion batteries, i think the technology has matured now and seems to be less troublesome. Finally, I’ve avoided mistreating my laptop. I don’t tough on the somewhat flimsy power cord where it plugs into the laptop and keep the keyboard and screen clean.
‘recording music’ is a very specific application. What software do you intend to use and which platform do they run on?
My Dachshand pup chewed my brand new Blackberry
charger a few months ago.
I bought a new one (2 for 1) deal and the
gal(also a dog owner) told me to spray
the cord with viniger/water.
Hope that helps.
I have to agree with your assesment per
why one would spend big bucks on a computer or
laptop.
Folks ask me all the time why I dont have a
computer.
My work intells caring for my quad son.
Webtv is fine for making work sched.
Email, FReeping or reading the local
paper.
Dont have time for much else in regards to
computer time.
Just not a neccessary need in my life other
than what I use webtv for.
Oh I do have a Blackberry with UTUBE and a
Browser for on the road or to look up utube
as webtv is not able to do that.
Really comes down to do you think you need a
computer because so many have them?
Do you have the $$$ to keep it up and running?
Do you intend to spend time troubleshooting and
using it or do you easily frustrate on
such activity and would be more likely
to allow it to sit and collect dust.
Really have to examine your own lifestyle
to know if ya need a puter.
I have had a cell phone now Blackberry for
several years and rarely use it, more for
emerg and having utube/browser when waiting
long for doc appts ect....
Matter of fact we are so busy in our off
screen life the most I do is check email and
read headlines (occassionally post) here.
(boy that caffeine sugar high from my chocolate special
treat just kicked in)