bye bye dell

OK, I can’t take it anymore. I’m ordering a 15” powerbook tonight.

The fans in my company-Dell Inspiron 4100 are louder than my old whitebox PIII-500. The 20 GB hard drive has me deleting MP3’s just to emerge packages in gentoo. It doesn’t have a cd burner. The screen adds a pink glow to everything when first warming up. The cheap plastic makes flexing noises when I pick it up. It is nearly 90% replaced-under-warranty hardeware. Hate hate hate hate hate hate.

Linux has been my primary (only) operating system for the past two years or so and the 15” powerbook is not yet supported fully by Linux — strange times indeed, I’ll have to use shareware and non-free software occasionally. Gasp.

I’m still looking forward to it a lot. ;)