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?