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"Considering buying a laptop."

So, advantages, disadvantages, links to good deals (under about £300, preferably, but ebay etc. is all good).

Just something to store all my music and porno on.

Thankee.

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better safe than sorry. It'll make for good stories when I'm old, too.

Where are you staying?! Is it some crime infested hell hole?

A fake laptop is pretty hardcore.

I'm thinking I might either hide it under the floorboards (cunning!), chain it to something like you said, or attach one of those house-arrest alarm type things, so if it goes outside the radius of my room (obviously not when i have it), it will either explode or give out a nasty electric shock/'help i'm being raped' sound. Something like that.

OR I could make a false laptop so any thieves would take that and not think to look for another one.

I'm getting one of them.
If any of those foreign types try to steal it I'll gut them... like a frog.

gerrid wrote:
> c) A laptop is easier to hide and less likely to get stolen if my
> room is burgled (obviously only if I hide it, though)

I just bought a laptop chain thingy. It connects to the security slot on the side of your laptop and then ties around a drainpipe or something similar.

Nobody is stealing my laptop unless they take the whole desk with them. Plus the noise from it will deafen them.

I love my laptop

Even if it does make a weird noise every so often.
Like a frog.

I saw my name somewhere in this topic while skimming through it, I'm gonna guess this comment will relate to it:

YOU DON'T NEED A LAPTOP!!!1 A DESKTOP HARDLY TAKES UP MUCH MORE DESK SPACE!!!1

:c)

gerrid wrote:
> I'll be getting a laptop for Uni for 3 main reasons (despite phi11ip
> constantly trying to convince me that I don't need one):
> a) I'll be living in a SMALL room with not much space (like
> yourself)
> b) I will be moving back and forth between places fairly regularly
> and also I may take a year out somewhere
> c) A laptop is easier to hide and less likely to get stolen if my
> room is burgled (obviously only if I hide it, though)

I too considered these reasons enough for phi1 to stop and think in a case by case way.

many goats wrote:
> Portability is an issue (but is it a word?), but admittedly it isn't
> necessary.
>
> The problem is space, to be honest. I'd be hard pushed to get it into
> the house I'm in now, and due to my parents splitting up fairly
> recently, the house I will soon be moving to will be about 40%
> smaller.

I'm currently in a room which is no bigger than 3x3 meters.
And I have a beast of a 17" CRT.
It doesnt actually take that much space, I've got a PC desk with the tower on the bottom out of sight
Then I've got my audio monitors attached to the wall.

And this setup does not fill the room, it barely covers an 8th of the space..