Not being a massively good luddite.

[whatho]

Sort of half thinking of getting a reconditioned laptop. I know I've been punished in the past for my misguided attempts to own electronic equipment, but I'm thinking if I have a secondhand one that wasn't actually put together with me and me alone in mind and that doesn't involve the mining of extra coltan and plastic and that, it might be a bit more tolerable and I'd only have to get over the whole spending money on luxuries thing when I do actually have use of a functional computer. Hm. I just don't have a computer of my own (I did once, but it died) - I use a communal family one that isn't necessarily always available, and that is a desktop. And that has an armchair directly behind where I sit, and anyone resident in said armchair can read everything I'm writing if they turn their head a bit to the right. And it's online. I'm thinking that if I had my own computer that I could take into different rooms for when someone comes into this room and starts channel-surfing, and that didn't have the internet... I might've spent the last hour actually properly writing. Possibly.

What do you think? Has anyone here bought a reconditioned laptop? Do they have any advice or recommendations or similar things? Is it likely to punish me with exploding?

Comments

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I bet you would do lots of writing if you had your own laptop that you could take into your bedroom or wherever (you could take it to a Starbucks and giggle at other people who do that because YOU would actually be WRITING something instead of just trying to LOOK like a writer, heeeeeeee ok maybe that is only funny to me).

I have no advice for you about the reconditioned laptops, unfortunately. I did purchase a reconditioned KitchenAid mixer a couple of months ago, though, and it is still mixing. My housemate has just used it to make something called 'Monkey Bread,' in fact.

Anyway, I am a big fan of the idea of purchasing reconditioned stuff, especially now that I am mostly on my own and I will never be able to afford a new computer/car/anything again ever. I think sometimes the warranty covers a shorter period, but STILL.

Yes. Pardon me, I have babbled all over your journal. Again.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

And I could take it on those clever trains that have sockets in the walls and I could pretend to be a businessman! Obviously I'd need a hat.

Hurrah that your reconditioned mixer is functional. I hope if I get a reconditioned laptop, it'll follow the mixer's excellent example. I'm a bit scared of the whole 'monkey bread' thing though. Hopefully it has bananas and nuts in it and that's the end to the whole monkey connection. Good.

Now I'm just lusting after banana-nut bread.