My current laptop was top-o-the-line in January of 1999, which means by now it is somewhat of a dinosaur. Today my new laptop for work showed up, and I once again have a laptop I can be proud of. :)

The extent to which laptop technology has improved in the past 6.5 years is quite impressive. It has lots of cool features my old laptop was lacking, perhaps the most interesting of which is the fingerprint reader. I can log in just by swiping my finger over a small sensor on the wrist rest. How cool is that? It's extremely fast, and probably an infinitely better means of authentication than any password could be. Can we put these on ATMs and everything?