I can’t believe that my local Library is actually offering to let people borrow Laptops!  How awesome is that!

Apparently, some local company donated all of their old laptops to the library since they bought new ones.  What a great idea for a company to do!  Merry Christmas local library users!

I won’t be borrowing one myself (plus I’m sure they’ll be in great demand).  But if I were to borrow one, the first thing I would do is go out and buy a cheap jump drive (you can now get a 4G drive for less than $20).  I would use the jump drive for anything I do with the laptop because once you return the laptop to the library, everything you saved goes back too.  If you save to the jump drive, you can save your stuff (I know obvious, right…).

I wonder if the library will let people check out the laptops for a period greater that 2 weeks?  I would imagine so.

Where I work, we are constantly upgrading our user computers.  With the latest batch, they are scrapping computers that have CPU that run at speeds of 3G.  So the computers they are throwing out are faster than most of my computers at home.

Computers have truly become commodities!

I have to wonder what else some of the other libraries let people borrow?