Well I mentioned in one of my last posts that I was thinking about getting a new Laptop computer since the one I was using was getting slower and slower – well I broke down and ordered one online a week ago and it arrived on Monday afternoon.
My old laptop is still working, but it’s five years old and the hard drive is small and considering how much work I do with graphics etc it makes sense for me to have a computer with a big hard drive and a fast cpu.
So .. to make things more affordable I bought an Asus Laptop. The new Notebook is an Asus N53JF has a 500 gb hard drive, 4 gb memory, Intel Core i5-460M 2.53GHz, Blu-ray DVD player burner, 15.6″ Full HD display, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M graphics.
I know I’ve been saying that we have absolutely no extra money and here I am spending quite a bit of money in the last week on a new computer, a flip camera and even an iPod … but well … the computer is pretty much how I make my money and therefore living these days and the flip camera might fit into that picture too because the videos will help make the blog posts more interesting once we get them going. The iPod … well .. that was just for my husband and I .. a splurge that we’ve been wanting to buy for a long time.
The only other technological gadget that we need to update is our cell phone. The cellphone that we’re using is one that I got for free from a marketing company back in 2006. It works but it’s kind of outdated. I think it’s time I start looking for a new cell phone or as they say in Quebec .. Téléphones cellulaires … soon … but not quite yet.
Ok .. back to figuring out how to get my email settings from my old computer to my new computer …. it’s just not working! Grrrrrr.
Asus laptops are pretty good and have also a nice design. Hope your laptop will have a long, long life 🙂
Good to hear you’re enjoying your new investment, Tricia. And as far as cell phones are concerned…at this point if you upgrade, you upgrade your contract, if you know what i mean. say good bye to the 40$ bills. anyway, you should probably still get some sort of storage device to download large files onto i.e. music, videos, large(not always necessary) programs. because that stuff will also slow your computer down.
Hi Tricia, your new laptop sounds awesome. My dad gave me a Macbook Pro for my birthday & the space on the HD is the most amazing factor. My old laptop, I was constantly deleting downloaded software & home videos to make space. You done the right thing Tricia Good Luck Natasha 🙂