My old, reliable laptop, 'Hypatia'. She's had six battery transplants and a screen replacement. Born in 2009 running Vista, she tried to stay relevant by upgrading to Windows 7 but eventually it was all too much & she had a nervous breakdown trying to render modern websites. Now she runs a lightweight Linux from flash & 8gb of memory, and hasn't had a single performance problem on the internet since the rebirth. Really she's just a single purpose machine now, but she's earned it. Lightweight, last of the wonderful Thinkpad keyboards, trackpad, 3 mouse buttons and grips in the just the right places, so I can hold her in one hand and a glass of wine in the other. Oh, and a six hour battery life. I know that someday she'll finally succumb and actually be completely obsolete, but we're going to fight it every step of the way.
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“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
―Carl Sagan