# Aspire 3690 has to go

Today marks the final day of my winter vacation, tomorrow I'll have
to use my desk again as my home office. This also means that the the
Aspire 3690 has to go as I do not have the real estate on my desk for
my private laptop + my work laptop + the 3690.

As a kind of farewell I am writing this on the 3690. I had a good
setup for it using an external keyboard and a wireless usb mouse + my
monitor still has VGA input, so I just close the lid and use the 3690
as all of my other laptops when sitting at my desk.

It was a great experience fooling around with OpenBSD, but using the
3690 has some downsides:

* It's loud. The fan is always on and if I demand a bit more from the
  Celeron M 430 then it spins up to full speed roaring loudly.

* Although the fan tries to heat up my room the laptop gets pretty
  hot. I have a tool for measuring power consumption somewhere, it
  would be nice to see how much the 3690 draws.

* The battery lasts maybe for an hour or an hour and a half even with
  apm(8) switched to automatic performance adjustment mode (apm -A).
  And now the power adapter occupies the outlet I need for my work
  laptop. I always have a shortage of outlets.

* The BCM4318 wifi is slow and as my desk is in a corner far away from
  the router it tends to lose the connection. I could use my wifi
  extender but then I would need another power outlet.
  The other machines use wired connections via power lan - all sockets
  occupied.

I have a few handwritten pages about what I've learned using OpenBSD,
I'll convert them to some digital format when I have time.
So that's it, back to work again...