In the market for a laptop

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This concept is terrifying. I live in the future.

But still no flying car.

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They can be really handy.

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Eww man I just looked in the SD card slot of my Mac and it’s filled with what would be pocket lint if it was in a pocket, but it’s in a computer which means it’s gross for reasons I can’t quite describe other than looking at it makes me want to wash my hands.

I think I’m going to put tape over it like I did with the ethernet, FireWire and Thunderbolt ports. Bleh. BLEH.

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Do references to “board chow” make you ill?

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No not really, because I know that’s just crumbs. It’s when you get unexpected fluff in unexpected places that throws me off and makes me feel a bit queasy. Keyboard crumbs are passĂ©, so much so I made this years ago


Edited: some context for disliking fluff; I’ve fallen through a floor into a crawlspace that was almost entirely filled with sporing/flowering dry rot and oakmould. Fluff is nasty.

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So, no belly button play then hunh?

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Amazingly enough, despite the impressive bear physique, I’ve never had belly button fluff. Neither has the husby. It’s some sort of proof of small miracles, I guess :wink:

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You obviously have never had flannel sheets.

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I tend not to own flannel anything; I grew up in the 90s. The end of flannel came and went. Cotton is the future :wink:

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No. No, you’re wrong. We went to a quilting store a couple of weeks ago and picked up some wide flannel so the Dragonlady could make us a nice duvet cover. That, paired with the lovely flannel sheets we got from IKEA, was wonderful. Granted, the sheets are probably antiques by now.

I literally squeed and rubbed myself all over the bed between the sheets and duvet when we put it on the bed.

There. Science.

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I counter your science with internet anecdotes! Where is your God now!? :smiley:

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He made the flannel

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Um. Flannel is cotton.

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Is it? I thought it was something to do with synthetic wool
 especially since it comes apart in little fluffy nodules like wool does


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Well, the crappy kind of flannel may have some polyester in it, but that kind of flannel is reserved for people who don’t know that denim is cotton.

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I had a look at the local clothes store website at what they call ‘flannel’ and yeah it’s mostly polyester here as a normal thing. Ew. Explains the falling apart thing rather well.

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Now, see, here in the US even the flannel that Walmart sells is 100% cotton.

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All the flannel I have is cotton or mostly cotton, but that may be a textile bias we have in the USA. I believe flannel was usually wool some time ago, but I don’t recall seeing any recently (like in 20+ years).

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I still adore my laptop. And I realized that so long as my kids are away for the weekend, I can stream the Steam games it won’t run from my desktop machine. I did this just enough to be amused by it.

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I am trying to find a mid range($700-800) laptop that will be mostly used for gaming and school work. Does anyone have a suggested brand? I will be loading windows 7 or 8.1 on it (whatever i can get my hands on for cheap), it also needs to be less than 6lbs. I dont think I will need a screen bigger than 15 inches.