laptop woes

so for about 4 years now i have owned my G4 PowerBook. it was a great laptop through college. even after i graduated it worked for doing freelance work. over the last year it has been going down hill. when Adobe released CS3 and i got the opportunity to install it, my laptop finally started showing its age. CS3 made my laptop run really slow when trying to work in Photoshop or code a site, especially when more than 2 programs were open at the same time. about 2 weeks ago the good old laptop finally had a major issue... the battery died. i didn't notice it at first because pretty much 90% of the time i use it i have an outlet nearby and i keep it plugged in. but then one day i had the need to actually use my laptop as a portable computer. imagine how surprised i was when i tried to turn it on and nothing happened. when i got home and had a chance to plug it in the thing booted up like nothing was wrong. the charge indicator on the charger plug was green and i thought maybe something weird just happened earlier. but after booting up i noticed that the battery indicator in the menu bar said i had 0% charge. i searched the web trying to find a solution for my trouble. i found a few places with tips to get the battery working again (if it wasn't completely dead) so i tried these out. no dice. none of the tips did any good. so i now currently have a laptop that doesn't work as a laptop. new batteries run anywhere from $80 (at a site i've never heard of) to $120 (at Apples' online store). i have been trying to decide if it is worth getting a new battery or to just wait until i can afford a completely new laptop.

today the decision got harder...



the new MackBook Pro is the coolest laptop i have seen and the graphics card enhancements alone make it worth getting. the only problem now is coming up with the $2500 + that it will take to get a hold of one of these.

posted by monkey @ 12:34 PM