Re: Bah!
@ Barry Rueger: Who said anything about CDs? I said I needed an integral optical drive.
Bully for you that you don't use CDs. Why that has any bearing on *my* requirement is not immediately apparent to me.
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@ TangoDelta72: I'm sure you will spot the gaping hole in your suggestion yourself, but I'll elucidate it for the masses.
On what shall I rip it, dear TangoDelta72, dear TangoDelta72
On what shall I rip it dear TangoDelta72
On what?
On your laptop dear Stevie, dear Stevie, Dear Stevie
On your laptop dear Stevie, dear Stevie,
Try your laptop.
(Audience) Heh heh heh
The laptop is aging dear TangoDelta72, dear TangoDelta72
The laptop is aging dear TangoDelta72
And I need a new one
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@ Doctor Syntax: What part of " I *don't* want to be buying parts and rolling my own like it was 1993" was unclear? I enjoy living vicariously through others' experience of installing Linux on laptops. I don't enjoy the litany of all the things that won't work properly without hours of fucking about under the bonnet.
I need a computer as a tool for helping me do other things, interesting things, not as an end in itself.
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