Saturday, September 9, 2006

To Buy or Not to Buy

Last year, I put off buying a computer because I knew I didn't need one for school, and not having one would help me save time at home. This year, I'm just not sure if I want to buy one at all!

I will have computerized work to do, but I have a dedicated iMac in my Writing Center office, and a whole bank of new (but not top-quality) machines in the Economics computer lab, which have all the software I'll need on them. If I do buy a computer, I'll either be unable to use it for work, or stoop to breaking copyright laws to get the software; there's no way I can afford all the software needed for the number-crunching we do. Of course, I could go whole hog and buy a discount-priced, probably-stolen-goods computer off Craigslist and then juice it up with stolen software.

It would be nice to have a computer to play music, DVD's, check my email at home, etc. But that's the very reason I shouldn't buy one: at home this morning, I worked for hours uninterrupted. Since coming to the office, I haven't even started the work I came here to do!

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