Setting up a new laptop for the new year...

And a pretty hefty one at that. It's a Compaq Evo N800c. It's fast and awesome, but it weighs three times as much as any other laptop that I own. Still, the screen is really nice and I can see doing some serious work with this thing. I'm quite happy with it so far.

So my work plan for the year is a little different from the one I followed last year. (Last year I used a Tablet PC, a Pocket PC, a desktop machine, and I carried another light notebook.) I think that I'm going to try to carry this machine with me at all times and I'm going to use my iPAQ as my main organizer. I'll probably leave the Tablet PC at home. It's a slate and it's a bit difficult to code on unless I'm sitting at my desk, so I'm going to use that mostly for art, travel, and photo processing in the field.