EDIT
I hate having to scroll to the bottom of the damn page to get to the next page, so here are page links

http://hypno.booru.org/index.php...iew&id=189&pid=20 <- Page two

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My laptop is officially dead. I am currently using my phone, of all things.

There will be NO new art from me until I can manage to get a new laptop. I just thought I would let you all know.

Maybe you can somehow set up an appeal for funds like Faustus did for her comics in Paypal!? :(
A broken laptop is nothing nice...You don't have any boot discs like Kaspersky's Rescue Disc,do you? With such you could ignore the HDD and start from disc. It also contains an web browser

I don't DX

And... huh?
What do you mean about the paypal thing?

Something like this: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VGMW9QLPACNE8
May look different from desktop view. Also using mobile phone xD

So, essentially just a link to click and if people wish to they can send money?
//guessing

Indeed :)

Huh.
Never thought of that. But then agian, I doubt I'll get any help anyway
Why would someone want to give their money to me? I wouldn't be able to do anything in return, after all.

Ok. I'm on my fiancee's laptop for now, until I can afford to replace mine.
I won't be able to do much in regards to art though, since it has a 1.4ghz processor DX It's all it can do to just browse the net usually ><

Well, at least it's better for the net than your phone.

Barely....
My phone loads pages quicker, actually XD

lolwut? XD

???

Your phone(!!) takes less time to load a site than a computer? xD
Does your fiancee use a stone? oO

With that processor, I'd say yes. :P

Yeah. His laptop is a few years old. Wants to get a new one, but he's too lazy to save up for one ^^;;

And I want a new laptop, just so I can use a good one again. I can't even use Sai on this damn thing.

An old arena partner on WoW played on a computer that lagged when starting up Notepad. I swear.

Having a crappy computer is no fun. Although, in his case, it was fun-ny.

I once used a computer with 64MB Ram.... 2hrs to boot xD

Look, all you guys sound like you never seen a computer with less than 4 GB RAM :P

Actually, I'm sure that with as much as 1 GB RAM and a SSE-enabled processor (something like single core old) you already can use SAI.

In any case, when I wanted to spring some life in a very, very old computer to turn it into a relatively OK media machine, I used Linux. The thing had a 400 MHz processor, that's right, 0.4 GHz, 128MB RAM and a TNT nVidia card, and it could stream web media. It booted in like half a minute, but that's not too bad for those specs.

I'm not saying it's wonderful to use an old computer, I'm just saying that if you put Windows 7 (or even some heavy linux like Ubuntu), it will be absolutely unbearable. And the machine, as old as it is, can do much better.

For example, there's a tiny Linux distribution called SliTaz.
http://www.slitaz.org/en/
If you install it into a USB drive (can be a thumb drive, it's VERY small), you can boot from USB, use it (you will be amazed at how fast it is), and before turning it off you can choose save changes (or start anew next time). The system itself runs in even something absurd like 64MB RAM (Actually I've tried that in a virtual machine, and it's true).

This way, you can run Gimp with pressure sensitivity (requires installing the drivers, I believe they have Wacom somewhere in the name so searching is easy).
SAI works in Linux, if you install Wine (a Windows compatibility layer that allows you to run Windows apps in Linux). Actually, it runs almost flawlessly, the only thing not working is pressure sensitivity. Photoshop CS5 barely works in this mode, but IIRC it's useable to the extent of applying filters and such. Paint.NET might work just fine if you install Mono, which is an open-source implementation of .NET.

In other words, you can choose to ditch your broken laptop, but there's a big chance that it's still perfectly usable for some tasks. And in a moment of despair, Linux will always be there to give you a hand :P

Also, I have absolutely no idea if you can do what I'm going to suggest, but there's an obviously unsupported and unlikely legal way to boot Windows from a CD, this might, MIGHT allow you to install Wacom drivers and use SAI instead of getting used to Gimp (not sure if you've used it before). Look for Hiren's boot CD, download it and burn it. It has modified versions of Windows XP and 7 that boot to RAM.

Another thing you can do is snatch a hard drive from eBay/Amazon for less than $50 bucks.

Can't use Gimp. Keeps glitching on me.
Anth [fiancee's] Laptop has 2gb Ram. And can't even load freaking Youtube without it glitching out on him.
Takes nearly 1o minutes to load something as basic as Wordpad for crying out loud.

I can't do all that, since my laptop is completely dead, my old laptop doesn't have a reliable power source [meaning I am not risking it] and Anth's laptop is... well.... anth's.
Also, I rely on pressure sensitivity for my art ^^;;

Thanks though, seriously. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do it ... on my own laptop instead of someone elses.

Oh, also, I actually do not have a thumb drive ^^;;

Where do you want to buy your new laptop?
I prefer amazon instead of ebay as ebay does not have any guaranty for bought products!