Through copious wheedling and arm-twisting, our support and procurement folks talked IBM into shipping us a loaner notebook while mine is sent off to the Depot for repairs (cue shots of Gollum being questioned in Mordor)<\/i>. And since it’s the same model, we can (in fact, have been able to) just pop in my <\/i>hard drive into the loaner <\/i>notebook and let me work seamlessly with it in the interim.<\/p>\n
IBM reminded us — several times — that it was just a loaner, not a replacement. That’s cool. Aside from internal WiFi, and the faster processor, and the DVD\/RW, and … um … hmmmmmm …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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