Oh, and one of those batteries... shouldn't be used for processor-intensive tasks during a heatwave on top of your duvet. It's one of the recalled ones with the Sony cells that are prone to thermal runaway and exploding into flames. So keep it cool. The other battery was a replacement for it, but they didn't *require* the original back, and well, it works and never exploded for me.
In two weeks you can compare it with Brian's Other Old Laptop, the trusty aluminium PowerBook G4, when sunsmogseahorse arrives. He didn't get any underpants with his, though. (The Dell is 2x faster, actually, but Ted wisely prefers MacOS. The PowerBook saw a lot more wear and tear than the Dell, for some reason.)
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Oh, and one of those batteries... shouldn't be used for processor-intensive tasks during a heatwave on top of your duvet. It's one of the recalled ones with the Sony cells that are prone to thermal runaway and exploding into flames. So keep it cool. The other battery was a replacement for it, but they didn't *require* the original back, and well, it works and never exploded for me.
In two weeks you can compare it with Brian's Other Old Laptop, the trusty aluminium PowerBook G4, when