Fear is the Path to the Darkside

     Many people don't know this, but if it ticks, lights up, possesses buttons, or requires a power supply it probably interest me. I can spend hours researching the latest and greatest gadgets wishing I owned them. In a way, the deep passion I used to have years ago with possessing the illest and rarest sneakers is comparable. For example, when I came home today I thought about how an MMO called Star Wars the Old Republic will be coming out this upcoming spring. I'm a huge star wars fan, in part, thanks to my older brother Ron who has read practically every star wars novel and can name all but 3 characters on a Top 300 Star Wars character list. So with the release of this game, it'll give us a chance to team up and relish in Star Wars lore. Well to play, you've got to have a gaming computer or at least a decent computer with gaming components. However, I think about everything in groups. When I think about school I think about all the objectives, assignments, long and short term goals that entails. When I think about skating I think about my board, my trucks, the sneakers I need to ollie higher, the spot I want to check out and all the homies I want to tag along with me. So when I think about computers, I think about a badass desktop that has the dopest components,  a sickass ultra-mobile laptop thats so powerful it could cure cancer, and all the cables, accessories, wires, and amenities that integrate it all together. That's fun to me.

     So when I sold my Alienware M11x laptop a few months ago because a newer version of it was being released, it felt like a part of my "set-up" vanished right before my eyes. Desktops are cool, ipods are awesome, Evo4g's are the shit, but if you don't have a laptop you don't have any versatility in your life. Especially when you use your laptop on a daily basis. Well today I couldn't take it anymore. Despite the ill-advisement of my older brother who suggested I wait until January when several new models will be released. I went ahead and found another M11x for an awesome price and copped it. Its powerful, upgradeable, has terrific battery life, and ultra-mobile. Feels like the balls back in my court again. The sweet part is that I got such a good deal on it I can still afford to upgrade to something else in a few months if I choose to. Now I'm just focused on finding inexpensive components to upgrade it. Like upping the harddrive from a regular sata 5400rpm drive to a solid state drive which increases its speeds of doing everything 11 fold.