Don’t teenagers sometimes do the stupidest silliest things!
Ours going off to college was offered a NEW computer with all the bells and whistles plus gigabytes of extra drive space. Instead we had to let our home computer go, because its familiar to spoildypants.
That sounds good to me. I’d want the new one!
Would this be an example of “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink”? 
You’d better be careful. When the teenager sees you doing fancy things on the new computer, s/he might decide to want it after all.
I got a new one. It’s the kind that sits on your lap. But it feels foreign to me…
Probably is, probably made in Japan.
laptop’s the name, cran. 
I can understand. But then again I am 16.
He knows that . . . he was just using artistic license.
If you read it carefully, you’ll note he used wonderful phrasing . . . excellent rhythm . . . evocative of the very nature of the Freshman Experience . . . exciting, yet unfamiliar and somehow vaguely unnerving.
Perhaps SDPants didn’t want to lose all his/her cool bookmarks* let alone leave you in custody of all those archived emails and IM’s, etc.
You’ve been drinking the sheep dip again haven’t you?
Frankly, I think laptop is a misnomer, as they are much easier to use if you place them on a desk or table. Notebook computer is probably more apt.
bad ergonomics it is
Yes…the word “laptop” is used too much anyway, yet I don’t think I’ve ever put it on my lap. Right now it’s on my bed. The school gave it to me.
And this is actually the first computer I’ve ever had of my own, and the first time I’ve used the kind that sits on one’s lap, I mean bed. 
And thus is born the new portable computer for the glib: The Aptop!
What’s an ap?
It’s what’s left of your lap after you stand up.
Now that you mention it, I think you could be right! Must investigate.
We have other computers but the one that left had all the best s/w on it.
I would certainly take the new one and let the kid have the old one.
Watch out setting laptops on beds and such. It has to get air via convection or it will overheat.