Now that the student loan surplus have arrived, I must find ways to spend it. <\/p>\n
I’m planning on getting my laptop asap, which may involve my first trip to the dreaded temple of consumption: the mall of america. I’m planning on getting a 14″ iBook with a DVD reader, not writer (doesn’t seem worth $200ish). I’m also planning on upgrading the ram, to like 768MB. This would put me in the awkward circumstance of having more ram on my laptop than on my desktop. Checking on pricewatch, I found a 1 GB ram stick (compatible w\/ the desktop) for $77<\/em>. I Like what Moore’s Law does when I’m not looking. So now the question becomes, is 1 GB enough, or should I shoot for two? Heh. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now that the student loan surplus have arrived, I must find ways to spend it. I’m planning on getting my laptop asap, which may involve my first trip to the dreaded temple of consumption: the mall of america. I’m planning on getting a 14″ iBook with a DVD reader, not writer (doesn’t seem worth $200ish). … Continue reading “Hardware happiness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}