First: Congratulations, Smallthing! That's a really fantastic sale.
Second: My laptop lives! The new charger came today, and, while it's a tad shorter than the old one, it provides slightly beneficial electricity in quantities far more potent than my tears and begging could ever give.
So were my predictions of increased productivity on the old computer right? Not at all. Up until it decided the internet was for less terrible machines, I just looked at the same amount of forums and sat through twice the load times. In the two desktop days, I wrote the first two scenes of my mystery story. After getting the charger today (hooray for speed shipping!) I rewrote the first two scenes, wrote a third scene, and wrote a 1,200 word review of Hammett's Red Harvest. Turns out responsive keyboards are kinda cool.