I've finally decided that "Johnny's laptop" (that he's had since 2015 but never uses) is now my laptop. *sigh* I really, really loved my laptop. It was a 15in Dell Inspiron that I got in 2013. I've taken apart and reassembled that thing SO many times in the last 10 years. Basically the only things I hadn't replaced on that thing was the screen, top cover, and anything soldered to the motherboard. I just liked the size, speed...and definitely the keyboard for when I was doing transcription. Several years ago, the grandkids knocked my laptop off of the couch downstairs and one of the clips covering the hinges broke off. Then for the last year or so...the screen had to be opened *just* right or it would blink on and off or get crazy lines through it. And yesterday...the network adapter card went out AGAIN. Unfortunately, my laptop is old enough that they don't even make that particular network adapter card anymore. I'd gotten a replacement card on eBay several times but between the annoying screen issue and now the network adapter again...I just decided to retire the laptop. :P And since we have another laptop that wasn't being used, it's not that big of a deal. I'm a little bummed though. I'd upgraded the RAM in my laptop to two 8gb sticks a long time ago and was going to take them out of my laptop and put them into this one...but there's only one slot that supports up to 8gb. UGH. It would've been nice to make this one a little faster...but it's largely just because I'm inpatient. :P
So yesterday I spent the day making sure I had everything from my old laptop updated on my external hard drives. I also cleaned up the drive on this laptop...got rid of a lot of old/duplicate stuff. And today I'm going through my--literally--thousands of fonts. I useMainType from High-Logic to organize and install my fonts and it's a lifesaver when you have as many fonts as I do.