{"id":507,"date":"2006-05-12T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T10:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/more-laptop-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2006-05-12T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T10:25:23","slug":"more-laptop-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/more-laptop-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"More Laptop thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given my 4-year old desktop PC keeps crashing more frequently, particularly when I play long videos or try to convert audio files, I&#8217;ve been thinking of eschewing the installation of a new processor (and hoping for the best), and replacing the bloody thing with a laptop. Ten years of desktop ownership, while really envying laptop users. I feel I&#8217;ve almost earned it. It would solve my DJ problem too. <\/p>\n<p>Alex M has suggested I take the plunge and convert to the world of Macintosh, buying a used G4 iBook on Ebay rather than a brand new Windows laptop. I&#8217;m not sure. I&#8217;ve been swimming in the Windows seas for so long, I&#8217;m rather wary of such a change. Then again, it could be just what I need. Many writers and artists I admire bang on about Macs, but then PC users don&#8217;t really say anything: they just get on with it. <\/p>\n<p>Any pro-Mac or pro-PC evangelists out there with advice , please drop me an <a href=\"mailto:dickon@dickonedwards.co.uk\">email<\/a>. Bearing in mind I have a budget of \u00a3500, which rather narrows things down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given my 4-year old desktop PC keeps crashing more frequently, particularly when I play long videos or try to convert audio files, I&#8217;ve been thinking of eschewing the installation of a new processor (and hoping for the best), and replacing the bloody thing with a laptop. Ten years of desktop ownership, while really envying laptop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}