My wife decided to give me $600 from her school loans to buy a new laptop with, after she came home with a new laptop that is *technically* better than mine for her school needs. I would have just gone out and bought the same one she got but it didn't have an express card port and had no firewire (I'm sure some of you saw my previous thread about it). So I decided instead of just going and getting any ol' laptop for $600, I'd save it and put it towards one I really want...easier to start saving if you are half- or almost to your goal than from zero, right?
So I started digging up specs and this and that...figuring out prices of shit, who has the same things for cheaper, etc. I started thinking out loud the other day about "what if...?" scenarios and I mentioned that I could pay off one that would be really sick if I financed it within a matter of 2-3 months with the $800 I'm currently sitting on.
My wife got pissed, as she's not even remotely interested in financing anything at this point...which then got her pissed because I mentioned how my buddy's laptop was pretty cool and he only paid $600 for his, and that hers was better than the one I got and she only paid around $600 for hers, and now I want a more expensive one now that I have money handed to me and why can't I just settle for this instead of thinking of a money pit to dig up...and it's all for something that isn't a need but a want...yadda yadda yadda.
So...is it wrong of me to want something bigger and better, wanting to get something thats gonna be sufficient for my needs for probably the next 4-5 years or better, rather than just settling on something that is going to lose it's novelty in 2? I think she's just looking at it as I just want something bigger and better...not something thats going to be more than sufficient for my recording needs, so I can worry less about the limitations of my machine and can focus on just recording the fucking audio with it...worry more about the mics and the knobs than whether my laptop is going to fuck up at any given moment.
...and lay off the "get a mac" stuff, I'm not even interested in hearing it FYI.
So I started digging up specs and this and that...figuring out prices of shit, who has the same things for cheaper, etc. I started thinking out loud the other day about "what if...?" scenarios and I mentioned that I could pay off one that would be really sick if I financed it within a matter of 2-3 months with the $800 I'm currently sitting on.
My wife got pissed, as she's not even remotely interested in financing anything at this point...which then got her pissed because I mentioned how my buddy's laptop was pretty cool and he only paid $600 for his, and that hers was better than the one I got and she only paid around $600 for hers, and now I want a more expensive one now that I have money handed to me and why can't I just settle for this instead of thinking of a money pit to dig up...and it's all for something that isn't a need but a want...yadda yadda yadda.
So...is it wrong of me to want something bigger and better, wanting to get something thats gonna be sufficient for my needs for probably the next 4-5 years or better, rather than just settling on something that is going to lose it's novelty in 2? I think she's just looking at it as I just want something bigger and better...not something thats going to be more than sufficient for my recording needs, so I can worry less about the limitations of my machine and can focus on just recording the fucking audio with it...worry more about the mics and the knobs than whether my laptop is going to fuck up at any given moment.
...and lay off the "get a mac" stuff, I'm not even interested in hearing it FYI.
