new laptop

What are interesting things can be done with a new laptop?

I can't really justify mine either... :)

If your home is big enough and you're lazy, you can keep your laptop by the bed and surf wirelessly first thing in the morning from the toasty warmth of your comforter. Otherwise, they're useful if your professional life consists of going from meeting to meeting, or if you travel a lot.

School.

My life would be alot harder with out my laptop to take notes with. It also is a great help to be able to scour the internet for resources, code at lunch, and browse bash.org during a boring class :P

I was thinking the toasty warmth comes more from the laptop. Try war*ing around. For example, do some warwalking around your home, or warbathing in the washroom.

Warelectrocutingyourselfinthebath, moar liek.

One time I was doing consulting at a large company and the only real reason I was there was to take up space. The laptop let me dial in to two other companies and do work for them while I was getting paid to sit on my butt. Sigh, those were the days.

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Indeed, connectivity + electric blanket = bliss.

Well, my new laptop can be unplugged and not turn off, which is a big improvement over my old desktop. Additionally, it is more than ready for doom 3, thanks to the mobility X800 in it. Yay. Clevo d900 variants are the win.... if you exclude the weight. :D

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You can cry when new games come out and you can't play them with the crummy video card the laptop came with. Alternatively, you can cry when you see how much buying a decent gaming laptop costs, and how little time it lasts on batteries alone.

If you're on a road trip and you're not driving, you can purchase a $10 car adapter and watch DVDs or play video games in the car.

Apparently using a laptop on your lap can mutate or kill your sperm, though. So if you're attempting to create another human being sometime soon, don't put it there. Then again, there are benefits to shooting blanks.