I bought a new laptop

My MacBook is falling to pieces and last week its battery thoroughly died.  You never realize how frequently an Apple MagSafe connector is disconnected until your battery is dead.  After killing the power to the macbook several times, it was time to consider buying a new battery.  That's $135 for something I'm not 100% certain will make it another year.  Next up, the monitor for my desktop PC is going permanently fuzzy.  It's a CRT, so I was looking to upgrade to a nice LCD to the tune of about $300.  I also wanted to buy a server to replace one of my older machines at the colo, that's another $1200.  It just so happens I was considering a machine similar to my desktop.  So I could have spent $1635 on all that, or I could buy a decent laptop for about $900.  The new laptop won.

It's an HP Pavillion dv7 or something like that.  Dual core AMD, 4GB RAM.  Dual 250GB disks.  Three USB, one HDMI, one Firewire, ethernet, modem, blu-ray/dvd.  It runs Windows 7 Home Premium.  I've slapped VMWare Workstation on there so I can run Linux.