Spent the weekend (and lost far too much sleep) getting my new laptop all setup to do what I need and want it to do so I (hopefully) won’t have to be carrying two laptops around anymore (I need to find a new laptop bag for this one — any suggestions on a good, well-padded bag for a 17″ laptop?). It’s been really annoying having a nice new toy to play with, but never being able to really use it.
I still need to do a few more system-level tweaks, and clean up my Start menu a bit, but we’re mostly there. I really need to redo my applications list to include some other utilities I installed during all this and remove ones I didn’t need any more (as there were a bunch of redundant ones on there) Then maybe (after I catch up on some sleep) I get back to blogging on a more regular basis.
Happy Mother’s Day everybody!
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I’ve got a monstrosity from Targus fro my work laptop, a 17″ HP Behemoth.
http://targus.com/us/product_details.asp?sku=TSB082US
It easily fits the laptop and all accessories. And when I travel to do network assesment I can get my 17″ HP plus my 12″ Thinkpad into this case.
Last business trip I got stopped by TSA – They asked me to remove everything electornic from this bag, so I produced:
1 – 17″ HP Notebook
1 – 12″ Thinkpad
1 – Buffalo 500G Network HDD
1 – iPod Classic
1 – Palm TX
1 – Sony Voice Recorder
1 – Toshiba External 120G HDD
2 – 1G Memory Drives
6 – Various AC Adapters
1 – Dr Who Sonic Screwdriver
So, the bag is pretty versatile and holds a lot of gear.
THis is what I got my wife for Mother’s Day. …and it’s a Samsonite if that means anything to ya.
http://sh.orty.com/kqby6tgk
Just looked on Amazon. Ignore the reviews, I can tell you this is a well made bag!! It is totally solid, built like a tank and is wheeled if you like that sort of thing. Plenty of room inside. If you want, Jake, I’ll send pix. Just let me know. I notice nobody had pix inside the case. It’s bigger than the Grand Canyon!!
GQ