Since I’m studying for the BSc Honors in IT at SLIIT, I had no choice but to move to a boarding place near the campus. After moving, all I had was my good ol’ ThinkPad laptop, which wasn’t exactly cutting-edge anymore 😛 I had my desktop PC at home, but moving that beast to the new place was too much hassle. So, I had to stick with my IBM ThinkPad for a few weeks until I could get a new laptop. I checked local dealers for a few models and quickly realized I’m too broke to buy an IBM ThinkPad, which, in my opinion, are overpriced in Sri Lanka. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think those Lenovo ThinkPads have the same durability as the old IBM ones. Any Lenovo users out there???
So, I decided to go with another brand “well-known for durability”, ASUS! Yep, luckily they had a new series of notebooks priced reasonably, considering the quality of ASUS products. There were cheaper HP and Acer laptops too, but I didn’t want anything other than ASUS since I’m such an ASUS fanboy 😀
I ended up buying the ASUS X51R series laptop with a Core Duo 2.0GHz processor. I even got a 7.5k discount from the Epsi guys (our local ASUS dealers) thanks to my BFAM Suchetha! 🙂
The first thing I did after getting back from Epsi was repartition the 120GB HDD, wiping out the evil proprietary OS from my precious laptop. While partitioning, I created one big (90GB) partition for /home and 1GB for swap. The rest was split into three more partitions: one for my primary distro and the other two for testing versions and betas.
So now I’m back on track, and my only problem is the lack of time. Not because SLIIT stuff is keeping me busy (actually, there’s not much to do these days, maybe because it’s the first semester), but because I have a ton of other things to tackle. As most of you have noticed, my blogs have been neglected over the past few months. I’d love to return to my old schedule of posting 10+ articles a week, but I don’t think I’ll have that much free time in the coming years 😦 So, I’ll aim to post at least once a week. It’s better than nothing, right??? 😀
~SeeJay
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