Can I get help explaining this, please?

[sylvar]

I'm currently using a PC owned by TBLC. I need to give it back to them at my earliest convenience; this is almost certainly on our trip to Florida which starts next Friday.

I'm a computer contractor.

So can y'all help me figure out how to explain to Jodi that it's not sufficient that I be permitted to use her old MacBook whenever she's not using it to write term papers? That's her preferred plan; mine is to spend less than $1k on a midrange laptop, preferably 2GB/160GB. (Probably around $700-800 after rebate.)

I don't mean to hold her up for ridicule here; I think her perspective is just sufficiently far from mine that I'm having trouble articulating the reasons why I think my plan is better. It's too obvious to me.

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[segnbora.livejournal.com]

I'd also point out that it's possible that you might have deadlines at the same time (I'm assuming you'll be giving your employers progress reports or something to prove you're not procrastinating the whole year or whatever time period away) and both need the computer urgently at the same time.