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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Lots more breathing space

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Today I bought extra storage for my laptop--it only had about 3GB of space left and I knew I wouldn't be able to manage it for much longer. I was originally thinking of getting a new laptop altogether, but an external hard drive is MUCH cheaper and I wouldn't have to deal with re-installing all the programs that I use :-).

So I looked around on the web for a good deal and external hard drives are still pretty expensive...but I found an 80GB one on the CompUSA website that was only $50 :-)! And it wasn't a bad one either--the hard drive had good reviews. It was on sale and after a combination of instant and mail-in rebates, the final price is $50.

So Steve and I went to CompUSA to check it out. It really was a great deal, except for one thing: it was an external drive for a desktop computer, not a laptop computer. Translation: the thing was half the size of my laptop and needed its own power supply :-). Somehow I felt it sort of defeated the purpose of portability :-).

We *did* find one that was for laptops, and reasonably priced--it was a 60GB drive. Normally 60GB drives cost around $130, but this drive was the same brand as the 80GB and thus was on sale that week too. After rebates, it'll cost only $99 :-). So we got that instead :-). I'm much happier with this one :-).

See how nice and small it is? It's the size of a 3"x5" index card and it's only half an inch thick.

And my laptop is very happy that it's got a LOT more breathing room now :-). After I moved things around a bit, it's now got a comfortable 8GB free instead of just 3GB.

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