it wasn't hard. the line is long enough and wasn't too badly entangled in all the other lines sprouting from the back of the desktop. the only reason this is interesting at all is that it is the next in a series of steps moving everything I do from the desktop to the laptop and that I imagine the desktop is going to start addressing me in HAL's voice pleading with me to stop unplugging things.
well as long as it has those rca jacks it will still be useful.