{"id":204,"date":"2006-05-03T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-03T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T11:25:18","slug":"hey_i_need_a_laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2006\/hey_i_need_a_laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, I need a laptop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/easynetworknyc.com\/powerbook\/images\/Keys1.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"275\" \/>I think I&#8217;m going to head out to New Hampshire for the second half of May, maybe into June.  And it occurs to me, that as a web developer, I can work anywhere in the world if I have internet access and a laptop.  Most of the world has internet access.  But I don&#8217;t have a laptop.  And I think I should acquire one in the next week and a half.  Here are my dream laptop characteristics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Big hard drive (100+ GB)<\/li>\n<li>Fast Processor (this girl has no patience for lag time)<\/li>\n<li>Lots of RAM (I need to be able to run Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Dreamweaver <b>at the same time<\/b> without it crashing)<\/li>\n<li>Wireless and wired internet access (of course)<\/li>\n<li>CD Burner and Player<\/li>\n<li>DVD Burner and Player<\/li>\n<li>The ability to be BOTH a Mac AND a PC so I can easily check websites on both platforms.  (Mac has Virtual PC&#8230; and I hear that new Mac Intel chip can boot up with Windows XP&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Insurance to protect me against loss, theft, damage, defects, stupidity, and anything else that could go wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So&#8230; here&#8217;s the problem. I&#8217;m totally willing to go out and buy a new Intel Mac Powerbook, but I hear they&#8217;re having some problems&#8211;running programs slowly and such.  Unless someone can convince me that they&#8217;re perfect machines, I think I should probably wait until the next generation comes out before I fork over lots of money for one.  So, I&#8217;m looking to you, the vast internet of cool people, to help me take one of two routes:1) Find the right new laptop for me to buy in the next week.2) Connect me with an honest someone who has a capable laptop they&#8217;re not using, and are willing to loan, rent, or sell to me right away.  It doesn&#8217;t have to be my dream laptop&#8211;this is just to buy me some time before I invest in The Dream.  It needs to be able to let me build websites in a wireless internet cafe. Mac or PC is fine. I&#8217;ll pay for shipping if you&#8217;re not here or in NH.  Do you have one for me?  Let&#8217;s talk.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.I think I&#8217;m going to head out to New Hampshire for the second half of May, maybe into June. And it occurs to me, that as a web developer, I can work anywhere in the world if I have internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}