This post is sort of out of chronological order.

This is a test that I will remove

It was the first day of class. I broght a pad of paper, pen, pencil and my laptop. 2-1/2 hours into a 3 hour class, and my battery conks. This is a CAD capable machine with a monsterous GPU, and appearently it was hungry for juice.

I knew that the machine was overkill, but I really thought I would have 3 hours of charge in the battery.

So I am changing direction.

I have a lousy windows minimal machine, loaded it it with what I needed bare minimum, deleted the bloatware, and it was still non stellar.

So I dumped $140 into a chromebook (minus store credit and I was out of pocket for about $30)

I have a few little utilities on it, a browser, and that is it, and I love it.

And it gets at least 5 hours on a charge.

Suck it windows