Having laptops made my life MUCH easier. Now when I go anywhere I can carry everything with me........saved on the laptop, without having to carry multiple binders or books. As a matter of fact I have the whole FIRST manual and team updates saved on them. I'm not into gaming so specs weren't a major concern of mine.
I mentioned laptops because I own two of them. They're both Toshiba Satellites. The first one I bought brand new from Best Buy 3 years ago for $1700 before the mail in rebates. It's a Satellite 1905-S277, and this is what I refer to as my "good" laptop. It has XP Home, 1600 mhz, 512 ram and 30 gig harddrive, combination cd burner/dvd drive.
After I started carrying that one around for a short time I started getting concerned about it getting destroyed so I copied what Elgin did on my team and won a laptop from Ebay. I won a Satellite 2805-S201 for just under $400. The seller was selling it because one of his kids pryed some of the keys off the keyboard and he thought it was destroyed. I checked with
Impact before bidding on it and found replacement keyboards were only $70. I also replaced the battery after winning it and the original 6 gig harddrive with a 30 gig because I ran out of space on it. It has 2000 Pro, 650 mhz, 320 ram, dvd drive and now a replacement 30 gig hardrive. I lucked out and haven't had any issues with it so far, so I got a good laptop for just over $600 counting the replacement parts.
As for the mice I have mini USB mice I bought for $20 that I use since I can't stand the track pads or eraser heads. I got them at Radio Shack and they're a cool blue and silver color that matches the Satellites almost perfectly!
