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.

Comments

[fizzgig-bites.livejournal.com]

My off handed gut reaction: You guys fight enough without throwing a computing resource into the mix.

The well thought out response: Everyone needs their own space. Ed has his computer. He has a password on that computer. I don't even know the password to his computer. Ed isn't on my computer. I have stuff on my computer that is sensitive. I wouldn't want Ed anywhere near a delete button on my computer.

I can see you guys fighting for time at the computer. No offense to Jodi but she procrastinates and panics at the end. I can see her demanding the computer for an all day and night paper which screws you and the job. The job pays the bills and without it, you guys are in trouble. I can also see you guys fighting over disk space and deleting something critical. I can see the computer being too slow and making you look unproductive.

Sharing a computer is a disaster waiting to help. Computers are cheap and he money may be worth avoiding the conflict.

[ximinez]

One of these days, I remember to turn that screen saver password off... Probably just in time to need to turn it back on for the next party.