Betsy, an Introduction

Betsy is my laptop.

I love Betsy.

She’s a pink Dell 17″ Inspiron 1720. Powerful enough to work or network or play WoW (yes, I play WoW.)

She’s also freakin’ huge… and when our monetary situation changes, I hope to also get a netbook for traveling. So I can keep Betsy in my hotel room, and take my netbook with me the rest of the time.

I had a desktop that worked fine, and bought Betsy for BlogHer last year. My old laptop was hopelessly outdated. By the way, if you know what I should do with my old laptop that is really outdated and purchased in 2000, please let me know, ’cause I haven’t a clue. Traveling with Betsy is doable, but heavy. But I love her.

In addition, she saved my ass. For the last couple of weeks, we had some power issues. The power kept going off for maybe a minute or two. But it happened something like 6 times in two days. My desktop couldn’t handle it and fried somehow. I still have hope it can be salvaged, but since my business is online, it was imperative I be able to work. I use Carbonite to backup, so I was able to get the necessary files onto Betsy, and now I work on her full time. But now I’m down to ONLY Betsy.

So, chant it with me. We Love Betsy… We Love Betsy… Consider it like crooning to a car we want to start.