The past few months have been rather consumed with many work projects, church commitments, projects for More Light Presbyterians, travel, training, and just plain busy-ness.  So I’ve had little time or energy to engage here, and my several (one, two?) readers have gone without.  Alas.

I think I’m on the other side of things now.  Unfortunately my laptop’s fan decided it was “time to die” finally (it has been spinning more or less happily for four years now, so I forgive its new reluctance to keep it up), so I am sans computer.  Well, not entirely true given the Dell laptop at work (which never leaves the dock), and the Compaq Evo at home which is mostly a terminal to access the Internets and e-mail.

Here are the guts of my ThinkPad T42, which has been a very fine laptop despite its current challenges.  The heatsink fan (the copper-colored component) is quite a piece of engineering.  A bit of egg-carton-style packing foam makes a great screw holder.  Thanks to this site for notes on how to remove the palm rest.

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I’ve been contemplating a new computer for a year or so, and thinking of taking the plunge back to Apple.  My first computer was a Mac IIsi, which my wonderful great-aunts funded despite its hefty price tag.  I loved that computer, and I wouldn’t be the big professional geek keeping my husband in the lifestyle he’d like to become accustomed to without that gift.  Apple is unlikely to rev the MacBook Pros anytime real soon, so now is probably as good of a time as ever.  And with Parallels I can have my MacOS goodness and my Windows XP work stuff all in one easy shiny package.  W00t!