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I dragged out an old convertible slate laptop of mine that... well, frankly at the time it was a waste of money -- we bought it so my wife could use it as a portable art tablet, but Photoshop wasn't compatible with the pen drivers! And so it sat fallow for like two years. Stupid waste of money.

But Microsoft bought N-Trig (the manufacturer of said pen display used in this laptop) and suddenly there are new drivers that work with Photoshop!

Of course, this laptop was on the weak side when it was NEW -- the convertible aspect was the source of most of its price tag -- and now it's significantly underpowered. But it qualifies for the free Windows 10 upgrade, so it's running that now... And it turns out that all of the Windows 8 / Metro / Modern jank actually works REALLY well IF you have a touchscreen -- and I do.

So... I've basically got a new old laptop to play with. It's not as nice as my work MacBook, but it's in better condition than my personal MacBook (I fell down on it when I slipped in the rain once) so for chat and web and programming it's... nice to have.