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So, I was given the excellent opportunity to order a laptop for work. Having always used rather less expensive hardware (to say the least), this was very very exciting. The process is kind of interesting. My work has a store that I go to and purchase something. That item then gets approved by my manager and then moves on to a secondary approval. I had gotten an email from my manager very quickly regarding her approval. The secondary approval was a little slow to happen. In fact I had really thought that I was probably going to have to wait until after tour to get my laptop. Not a big deal but it would kind of feel like having to wait until January 25th for Christmas...

Anyway, to my surprise a friend of mine comes by the office and mentions that I have a package. My manager asks where it is from and says, "That is your laptop! Go check out!" Not wanting to disappoint, I head out and grab it. I open it as fast as I can, trying not to just freak out and break something. I was also trying to be calm and collected about the whole thing so I didn't look like I never get stuff like this, even though I never get stuff like this.

The laptop is a thinkpad t42p and totally rocks. It has a gig of ram and 2ghz pentium mobile processor. The video card is a ati fire gl mobility 128 (128 Mb of ram) which should do pretty well when I get our new xgl guy to install the new hip xcomposite manager. In a word, I am excited. Maybe I will get pictures or something. In the mean time I will be staying up really late every nite to "configure" it and generally enjoy my new toy ;)