Selling my laptop, continued…

In preparation for selling the laptop, I wiped the disk and reinstalled Vista. And, you know what? Vista is halfway pretty. Maybe it only feels that way because I was getting rid of Ubuntu Linux. But, honestly, doesn’t this look better than Windows XP?

Microsoft Vista

Anyway, there are currently about 8000 laptops for sale on eBay, and mine doesn’t show up in the first couple of hundred listings. If you search for a used “Inspiron 1525,” though, you will see it. But search quickly: the auction expires in 1d 03h.

There’s barely enough time for me to be depressed by this article from Bruce Schneier about how hard it is to sell a laptop on eBay.

So far, I haven’t been scammed. On the other hand, I haven’t gotten any bids yet, either. People are running up the prices of similarly- and less well-equipped machines, while the clock runs out on mine. I don’t know what’s up with that. Also, there are 17 people watching. (Really, 16: I’m watching it myself.)

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