progress • 11 comments • With so many things that need to be done we tend to forget all the things that we've completed over the past few weeks. We've finished our landscaping, we had our second round of vaccinations, and we've (finally) listed our house for sale! We also purchased our laptop for traveling. We decided on a Macbook Air. Our two options were an ASUS EEE PC 901 laptop or the Macbook Air. Both laptops feature a solid state drive (no moving parts) and are designed for travel. There were a variety of reasons why we ultimately went with the macbook over the ASUS but it wasn't an easy decision. We bought the Macbook Air refurbished from Apple and got a good deal. It's the first time that I haven't bought a brand new computer. A co-worker had an interesting theory on why it is better to buy refurbished. He suggested that each of the reconstructed products are quality tested by Apple whereas the new products are only randomly tested. So far we haven't noticed any aesthetic or technical defects and we're very satisfied with our purchase. - Alex
