'Tig - that's part of it...
Me and the gf have just moved into a new flat which isn't much bigger than the old one. The layout of the phone sockets and things in the new place mean that we wouldn't be able to have a computer anywhere but in the lounge, which is crowded enough as it is.
Therefore I thought we'd have use have a laptop as our main computer. Since I already had a laptop that wasn't a problem, except that my new job might well involve quite a lot of travel: I'll want to take the laptop away (to keep up with PBW) and she'll want to keep it at home (to go Online from the lounge) - so the only solution is two laptops.
Seeing as I recently had a bit of a windfall (redundancy payment) I decided to treat myself to a new toy
The added bonus is that my old but well-specced desktop can go to my brother who has a much bigger lounge, and whose old PC (something I cobbled together out of bits I had lying around) wasn't able to run SEIV.
[ August 02, 2002, 15:38: Message edited by: dogscoff ]