Re: [tlug] OT: laptop in Akihabara (map)

[ijw@example.com]

> ijw@example.com wrote:
>
>>Today's Akihabara recommendations:
>>
>>- a nice, nearly new Fujitsu Loox in Otto (equivalent to a Lifebook P) -
>>1GHz, CDRW/DVD, small and with a lovely 1280x768 screen.  I was tempted
>>but it was 137,000 and that's a little more than I fancied paying for a
>>2nd hand laptop.  Especially when I can't communicate well enough to find
>>out whether there's a catch.  I think these go new for 240,000 though, so
>>the price is still quite good. [etc.]
>>
>
> Thank you for that report!  I used to work a ten minute walk from Otto
> and ended up going by there once or twice a week (sometimes every day),
> so it was quite natsukashii to read that.  I still cruse by there when
> I'm in Akihabara, but that's not often these days.  Shinjuku, on the
> other hand, I'm spending more time in, so if someone has a Yodobashi
> Camera question, zap away and I'll swing by and check whatever out.  I'm
> not in Shinjuku every day, but usually two or three times a week.
>
> Lyle

Hmm, I shall bear that in mind.  I'm not sure that windowshopping
vicariously is quite the same, though ;-)  On the other hand, I won't be
walking around for the next day humming the Yodobashi jingle...

-- 
Ian.