I like havling a laptop computer for the ability to take it places I couldn’t access a normal computer from.<\/p>\n
I like it for the convenience of not having to maintain parallel systems at work and at home.<\/p>\n
But most of all I like it for those three second power blips in the office during the hot days of the summer when all the desktop machines reboot but my laptop doesn’t. Yah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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