My Toshiba laptop is getting closer and closer to dying. Dunno if I'll be able to fix it but my mum bought some old laptops at a garage sale. And she's letting me have one that she got for $15. It's an HP and not as flashy as the Toshiba was in its prime, but the monitor backlight works, and so does the CD/DVD-RW. And it has wifi and three USB ports, two of which work(one more than the Toshiba), and it isn't shutting down randomly.
Sure, it's older and its lid is a bit loose, but I don't need to hook it up to a second monitor that I have to lug around. It's got Windows XP, but it's fine - I don't need frills, and if I wanted to, I could duel boot the computer with Linux.
How did we get this lappy for $15? Well, the former owners said that the kids had put a virus on it and pretty much destroyed the thing. It works pretty well despite someone hiding most of the files, and it burned several backup CDs without a fuss. I've had to fight endlessly with my Toshiba just to get it to read a CD. And the Toshiba had previously refused to boot up even in safe mode and forced me to do a total system recovery. This time, it's being nice to me. Might be able to save all the stuff I need to this time.
Life can suck sometimes, but then there are little things like this that make everything right with the world for awhile.
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