happy birthday to the laptop

[julesjones]

Well, happy birthday tomorrow. Just went looking for an old post to refer to in the geek nostalgia thread that developed under my post about reinstalling Windows, and discovered that it will be five years tomorrow since my Thinkpad arrived. It mostly spends its time sitting on a port replicator pretending to be a desktop, but it does travel the world on occasion. I think this is the first time in at least three years and probably four that I've done a full re-install. It's had an extra memory module installed, and the hard drive swapped out for a larger one, but the only mechanical issue I've had with it was its original CD drive, which was somewhat temperamental on burning disks. I'm not a gamer, so it's still more than powerful enough to run everything I use. Even if it dies tomorrow, I think it's amply repaid the investment in a business-class machine.