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Betsy, an Introduction

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Ready to Work

Ready to Work

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.

Betsys Face

Betsy's Face

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 My old laptop was hopelessly outdated. By the way, if you know what I should do with my old laptop that is really outdated and purchased in 2000, please let me know, ’cause I haven’t a clue.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.

to laptop or not

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I think I need some advice.

Do I buy a laptop or not?  I will have the money from our refund.  however, I’m not sure I should spend it on that or debt.

Then again – this other refund – that rebate thingie for the economy – is found money.  I didn’t work for it, I didn’t earn it, so heck, why put it towards debt?

I have an old clunky laptop which is fairly unuseable.  When talking to those in the know about such things, they basically said “Go new…  Even if you try to upgrade the old one, it’s just not meant to handle that much processing.”

OK fine.  I won’t upgrade, it would be new.  Then there was the mac vs pc debate…  Which I still haven’t reconciled.

Why do I want one?

I have a desktop at home, and one at work.  They both are fine.   I have no complaints there.

But every once in a while I would like to go sit on the couch instead.  Every once in a while, I’d like to go to starbucks and write without the distractions.  And – if I’m totally honest – I’d like to take it with me to BlogHer.

Is all that enough to spend that kind of money though?  I think this is a case of guilt vs. want.  Which is going to win?

What would you do?  No, seriously, help me out here!

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