Tech Eye: A season to spend, a season to soil
It justifies just about any sort of lewd behavior, from diaper theft to mummery, but that's precisely the kind of truth that appeals to us (we're also fond of the maxim "the Lord helpeth those who helpeth themselves to other people's stuff").
One of our favorite (mis)interpretations of the aforementioned adage is the idea that sometimes you need to splash out and buy something grotesquely unnecessary but, on the other hand, shiny. Quite frankly, we suffer from sudden fits of uncontrollable impulse consumerism - the last time Techeye visited a comic-book convention, for example, we took home a 1.5-meter-tall, Chewbacca-headed Pez dispenser ("warning: consumption of brick-sized Pez may cause hemorrhaging") and a pimped-out Vespa (complete with hydraulics), which would have cost us at least zł.15,000 and zł.100,000, respectively, if security had bothered to look under our trench coat.
Recently, Techeye's personal laptop has started to show its age, meaning we were faced with the ambrosial challenge of finding a worthy successor and, naturally, we wanted to go a little crazy. We've always harbored a smoldering desire to build our own laptop but, since the tragic death of her beloved pet guinea pigs, our alpha wench has banned the use of soldering equipment in the house (who'd have thought guinea pigs were unsolderable?). With the possibility of successfully building our very own Frankenputer thus made unlikely, we decided to buy the next best thing - an Alienware laptop.
For anyone unfamiliar with the firm, Alienware specializes in heavy-duty gaming rigs and has earned a reputation among gamers for its products' sturdy designs and powerful graphical performance, though some critics claim the gear is overpriced. Indeed, the laptop which caught our eye - the Area-51 m9750 - costs over zł.14,000 when fully tricked out. This prepossessing gadget has a flex-free magnesium alloy chassis, 17" display, dual Geforce Go 7950GTX video cards, an efficient cooling system and a host of other features designed to make nerds soil their drawers. We haven't told the wife yet how much dosh we dropped on the Area-51, so the near future is likely see a lot more drawer soiling than anybody expected.
