Wanted: New Laptop; Current Laptop & Wallet Both Broke

I've had my laptop since 2008. I purchased it in August then, it was a refurb I found on sale on Buy.com I think. At $500 it was pretty sweet - my wife just needed something for the road since she was going to be doing some travelling work. We of course needed to upgrade the memory, and before long Vista crashed so hard that nothing I did would work. It then ran XP for a long time until I personally ****ed that installation up hardcore. Now it runs Windows 7, which I'm very happy with actually.

Anyway, this has all been somewhat off-topic. I need a new laptop.

Minipost: Prey Project

If you own a laptop or one of the smarter mobile devices available out there, you should really check out the Prey Project.

Prey is an advanced, open source application that could help you recover your portable device should it ever be lost or stolen. You can find out more about it on their website.

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