I live in an RV and we are a 2 laptop couple.  The HP is 3 yrs old, my Dell XPS Gen 2 is 1 yr old.  We both play very high graphics games a LOT..and I am a writer, type pretty fast.  We also play online games, hammering out chat messages and using the arrow keys to move. 

Yes I have replaced the Dell laptop keyboard after a year...but it cost only $17, it was delivered to me within 4 days and I had it installed in 15 minutes.  This Dell is highly upgradeable. 
Not so with the HP laptop, but the keyboard is tough. 

A lot of people summarily dismiss laptops as viable desktop replacements.  I wouldn't have anything else BUT a laptop.  If I move into a house I will have a laptop. 

The total portability of a laptop is important as I use Libraries while traveling to get Internet.

 

I had all the TechTV Sims in my Sims 1 game..Leo LaPorte and company....and I sent them on 'Vacation' then totally forgot that I had and never saw them again.  After you did the few things you could on the vacation lots what was there to do? 

As for pets.....they were cute for 5 minutes, but they went EVERYWHERE with you...and were so exhausted they collapsed when your Sim got them home.   

I always wonder about the lack of creativity in many Sims 1 players..they want the same stuff back in Sims 2.  Maxis surely can be challenged more than that.. more than to just re-create all the same things we all played for those years.  If everyone bleats (sheep joke) for the same old stuff, how are we going to get new stuff?

When I am tired of NL and OFB I want NEW STUFF.

I have a different problem and I caused it myself, but don't know how to fix it.

I have twin sisters, one of whom owns a Lamp Shop.  I got a hack to allow the hiring of relatives...and had one sister hire the other...however..oops...I accidentally had the wrong twin hire the one who owned the business.  Well to compound the problem, I then had the real owner hire the other twin. 
Now they are both employees of the Lamp Shop and after working in it as playable Sims together for 4 Simdays...they must go home, where the car pool picks them up and they go to their own store from 9 to 5 to work.  They make $350 a day each but this wasn't my plan. 
I planned on their spare time being used to pick up guys, party and you know...what pretty twin sisters do....

I wonder...if I disable the hack...will it go back to one twin owning and one just hanging out?

Out of the Lurk Closet...

I built a Casino..rectangular one story bldg with good restrooms..and the 'customers use showers and bathrooms hack'...The Casino has one of the twirly electronic thingies, a small dance floor with big boom box..poker and pool tables, lots of arcade games and comfort/10 couches in alcoves.  It has a private office with TV, bookcase, laptop for the Boss..only he can go in.  It has a buffet and 3 tables for 4, also a counter with an expresso machine.  Occasionally he fills the buffet and 'serves' expresso.
It has a small gift shop with windowed walls and a windowed door...3 low display tables and 2 higher ones.  He sells teddy bears, dolls and cute 'doo dads' like any Casino gift shop. 

Sims pay $35 an hour to come in and play games, shop, eat when the buffet is full, drink expresso, whatever.  They LOVE it...he is nearly out of the hole $$wise and lvl 5 with one guy helping sell/restock/cashier and clean up after buffet customers. 

I put in a lot of wild patterned walls, carpeting and those flashing, revolving dance floor lights.

My bars and expresso bars were ignored so I went this way for food and drink.

Z