Lately I've gotten a major gaming setup upgrade! So one of my older brothers is insanely good at finding amazing deals on computers parts. Nobody can deny it. He also loves collecting parts, especially laptops.
Yeah. So this was taken last Christmas of all the laptops out family currently owned. He has more today. All functional laptops have their screens turned on, the others are missing parts to upgrade the ones that are turned on. Take a gander at the far left one. That's our family's (and my brother's) first laptop... and it still works! It has, if I remember correctly, 8 MB of RAM and is sadly missing its battery, cuz, well, we played with it and lost it. Also note the pile of random wires, speakers, and printers behind the laptops. I love my home.
So as I was saying about my brother being amazing at finding computer parts: he shops almost weekly at DI here in Provo for any old computers parts of laptops on sale. Last month he bought a really nice laptop for $10. Who parts with a perfectly functional and high performance laptop to have it sold for $10!? I dunno, but we spoil ourselves. So last week, my brother found an HDMI TV and a gaming laptop only missing one key (Delete key, but we replaced it with scroll lock. Have you ever used scroll lock?) for a total of just $10. What. How. An HDMI TV for $8 and a slick gaming keyboard with finely waxed keys and back-lighting for $2!? On top of that, he got a nice big USB speaker for a couple dollars, and gave all three of these things to me. Now my desk area is souped up with some high tech hardware, and my laptop has become the central hub of gaming for everything to connect to on a shelf up above me.
Look at that beautiful laptop, with all of the beautiful wires hanging out of it. Why am I so privileged? The laptop only has WASD lit up in this picture, so it's not quite a sight as it sometimes is. The speaker is sitting just below the TV, with a length almost matching that of the TV. The only things that looks less than amazing in this photo are my Dell mouse and my messy desk. I have a gaming mouse with all sorts of cool light settings in a drawer in my room, but I've used it for several years and it's starting to give out a bit. The Dell mouse works fine. I love my life.
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