Used laptop computers are everywhere these days. How can you sift through the mass of available used laptop computers to narrow your search down to the right laptop for you? This fourth and final article strives to give you a few suggestions for your next laptop purchase.

Wireless Connectivity

Built-in wireless used to be a luxury. More and more now though, it really should be seen as a necessity. If the laptop you’re considering doesn’t have built-in wireless, you should at least have an external wireless card thrown in. Connecting to the internet and your local home network is something you’ll find yourself doing a lot of in the future. If you have a choice between 802.1b and 802.1g, make sure you choose the 802.1g as it has more range and greater speed.

USB Ports

How many USB ports come with the laptop? Older laptops may not have any. Some have only one. The more USB ports you can get, the more convenient it is. You should also ask if the laptop comes with USB 2.0 or the older original version 1.

Hard Drive: Choose a large one

In this day and age, anything less than 20GB is way too small. In fact, you should always choose a laptop with as large a hard drive as possible. Storage space fills up fast especially when you consider all the songs and movies people store on their laptops these days. Go as large as your budget allows.

User Computer Laptop Warranty

If you have followed my advice and are looking to buy from a reputable dealer, what kind of warranty do they offer? Don’t buy a used laptop from someone that offers you no warranty of any kind. At the very least, you want to get a 30 day warranty. The more the better. You never know if the hard drive is near failure or some other catastrophic problem in near. Reputable dealers offer warranties. Stay away from anyone that doesn’t offer one.

While I haven’t gone over every possible thing you need to look for when purchasing a laptop, I have covered the main things that should make sure you make a used computer laptop purchase you’re happy with.

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The most notable feature of zombies and other dead things is
that they are not very smart. Something happens to their logical
thinking process in the nether world just before they rise again
to terrorize their chosen hero and heroin. Speaking of heros,
have you noticed that there is always one of each gender of
hero/heroin-male and female-everyone else is always killed off
so they can be alone. Romantic, right? And they always kiss at
least once and usually during the most dangerous time, when in
real life they would both be having a hard time just keeping
their quivering kidneys in check. I know if a dead thing was
chasing me, I’d definitely have an urgent need for the closest
powder room.

But, I digress. An un-dead creature’s intelligence level is
obviously to be questioned. Remember Frankenstein’s monster?
Bulldozes right through wooden doors designed to keep an army of
bloodthirsty, marauding hordes out. Then what does he do? He
forgets where he’s going and stops to smell a flower and smile
at a sweet, little street urchin who’s out panhandling for her
shiftless mother. When he remembers that he’s supposed to be a
killer, he growls and lumbers out into the smog to find victims.
Now where is the logic in that? There was a perfectly good
victim standing right in front of him, easy pickings, no fuss,
no muss. Did he recognize it? No. Instead he spends half the
night chasing screaming peasants around cold, damp, cobbled
streets and ends up going down in flames for his efforts. Duhh!

What about Zombies? They will stand and beat on a door that the
hero just slammed in their faces for hours. Hello, dead things!
Use the other door for Heaven’s sake. (Okay, maybe not for
Heaven’s sake, but you get the idea.) Or why don’t they use the
window? But nooo, they keep pounding on that one door until it
splinters and instead of turning the door knob, they thrust
their arms through and growl because they can’t quite reach the
iron-kidney hero who just pushed the heroine out the other door
so they can run away. The delay, of course, gives the hero and
heroine plenty of time to get away, kiss and other assorted
mushy things. Meanwhile the zombies are still trying to figure
out how to turn the damned door knob.

“But they’re dead!” you say. Yes and no. Why do you think we
call them un-dead? They’re walking aren’t they? Well really sort
of shuffling, but they’re on two feet. And they talk or moan or
groan or something along the guttural lines. And they always
know exactly where the people they are chasing are because they
always show up no matter where the hero runs with his heroine.
That means they have control of their faculties, right?

Speaking of control, have you ever noticed that zombies never
need to go to the bathroom? They devour entire human bodies,
(using atrocious table manners, I might add) and drink gallons
of human blood, but they never have to go. Why is that? Maybe
kidneys of steel are a requirement to be in flick like this?

And their personal hygiene, UGGH! Matted hair, toothless
mouths, grubby skin, and tattered clothes. Haven’t they ever
heard of Colgate®? And they don’t care! They even sometimes have
orgies around a bonfire and not a drop of water or a cake of
soap anywhere in sight. Not even a single spray of Binaca®! What
kind of logic is that? I wouldn’t think of attending an orgy
without my breath mints-Ahem-er-uh-not that I’ve ever-ah-well
anyway, back to zombies.

I think someone ought to set the movie industry straight.
Un-dead creatures deserve the same treatment as any other
monster. Heck, even The Blob took an occasional dip in the
river. And did you ever saw Dracula in a wrinkled suit? Get with
it Hollywood. Clean up your act. Justa Rant, Jo

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