{"id":6400,"date":"2017-11-30T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/?p=6400"},"modified":"2017-11-30T12:28:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:28:38","slug":"6400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/2017\/11\/30\/6400\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Old Friend!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nIt\u2019s time to retire an old friend. I\u2019m permanently shelving my Dell Mini v9.<\/p>\n

The fall of 2009 was the pre-tablet era and all the companies were pushing for smaller laptops. I got the Dell Mini because I researched it and found that I could mod it to run Snow Leopard, the then-current operating system for Macs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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My goal was to make it a Mac-like laptop with the sole purpose of running Scrivener. I bought it, installed extra ram, and turned it into a Hackintosh.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I got it on November 8th, 2009 and these are the things I\u2019ve written on it these past eight years\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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  • Holiday Wars Vol. 1 (pictured in the photo)<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Finish the Script!<\/li>\n
  • Holiday Wars Vol. 2<\/li>\n
  • Holiday Wars: Monster Eater<\/li>\n
  • Tales of Holiday\u2019s Past (Anthology)<\/li>\n
  • Cupcakes vs. Brownies<\/li>\n
  • Holiday Wars Vol. 3<\/li>\n
  • Mermaids vs. Unicorns<\/li>\n
  • Genie vs. Djinn<\/li>\n
  • The Eye of Hastur<\/li>\n
  • National Cthulhu Eats Spaghetti Day<\/li>\n
  • Elderealm Book 1: Wrath of Dragons<\/li>\n
  • Outline Your Novel<\/li>\n
  • Dinosaurs vs. Robots (short story)<\/li>\n
  • The 5 Day Novel<\/li>\n
  • Ameriguns<\/li>\n
  • Holiday Wars Vol 4.<\/li>\n
  • Resist Them<\/li>\n
  • Story Pitch<\/li>\n
  • The Greyness (short story)<\/li>\n
  • Tales of Elderealm Vol 1. (Anthology)<\/li>\n
  • Tales of Elderealm Vol 2. (Anthology)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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    My Dell Mini was my go to system for first drafts and I used it for most rewrites too. For what I paid for it, $195 plus $50 for ram, it has well earned it\u2019s money back. It\u2019s truly been a good companion.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    UPDATE: I got a few messages asking what laptop I bought. I purchased a refurbished unibody MacBook for $140. It came out in 2009 but has been restored with a new battery, an SSD hardrive, and new screen. I also spent an additional $40 to upgrade it to 8 gigs of ram. It\u2019s basically the laptop I would have bought eight years ago instead of the Dell Mini if I had been able to afford it. It\u2019s in great shape, runs Scrivener 3.0 and Vellum without a problem and although I would LOVE a fancier MacBook Pro, I need to save money for editing (I have at minimum 6 books coming out next year!) and the new iMac Pro (upgrading my home computer is a MUST).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It\u2019s time to retire an old friend. I\u2019m permanently shelving my Dell Mini v9. The fall of 2009 was the pre-tablet era and all the companies were pushing for smaller laptops. I got the Dell Mini because I researched it and found that I could mod it to run Snow Leopard, the then-current operating system […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6406,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions\/6406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}