After serving faithfully for almost 7 and a half years, my laptop has at long last expired. ::sniffle:: It hasn't crashed, which I suppose is good, but the bit that allows power into the computer has gone wonky, so I can't get the thing to stay up for longer than about a minute. Fortunately, I've been expecting this for some time (it's rather by way of a miracle, actually, that it didn't die years ago), so all my files have been routinely saved to disk. Still...I'm sad it's gone.

And I'm now faced with replacing the thing, which is rather a hopeless task. I've been out of the computer loop for so long that I have no notion which laptops are quality. Any recommendations, anyone? Or should I just go hound some poor Best Buy chap?

Requiescat in pace, Little Laptop.

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