supersonic feet

For the past week or two I’ve been pondering on how best to handle all the photos I’ll be taking on my road trip around Europe in May (note to self: references like this work better when you’ve mentioned the road trip before now).

I was settling on the idea of buying a PMP (Portable Media Player or something along those lines), until Ken (my former university flatmate who’s coming on the trip with me) pointed out that for £100 more I could probably have myself a cheap laptop.

As Viliv were taking their time launching their new website for US/European sales, I started having a look at how cheap laptops come these days and it turns out that although they’ve got cheaper, cheap still ain’t gonna buy you much of a laptop. So I started looking on ebay (as you do) and it seemed there might be some decent bargains to be had by buying a used/refurbished laptop.

After a couple of failed bids for a Dell and a Sony Vaio (would have loved a Vaio!), this morning I managed to snag a Dell Lattitude D410 ultra-portable laptop. This was actually one of the first laptops I found on ebay, but I then went off trying to find a better deal, of which there eventually wasn’t.

So anyway, I’ve paid my money and am now waiting to hear from the seller in the hope it’s not a scam (there always is that worry with ebay). I’m sure it’ll be fine though hehe

Aside from the laptop, I’ve ordered a 4GB micro-drive for my camera along with USB card-reader to connect to the laptop. Savastore (Watford Electronics) have one on a great deal at the moment for £46.99.

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