geekier than usual
Marah and I came to the conclusion that we wanted more portable computers for the trip to Japan, and we wanted time to set them up, when we would not be distracted with other things. I know have a little Sony laptop, 13" screen, Intel Core Duo 2, 2 GM RAM, NVIDIA 7400, Vista, with built-in camera, microphone, and fingerprint scanner. Right now I'm installing a two-inch-high stack of CD and DVD software on the new system. I've completely buggered Norton on the "old" (2005, 17") laptop, so I have Symantec tech support fixing that. I'm running email on the older (2004, 15") laptop. Marah is amused seeing me using three laptops (and we're watching Psych on the DVR). I've set the desktop look to Windows Classic and small icons, which gets rid-of the MacOS-ness of it (not that I mind MacOS, but my Macs have small icons too :) ).
The features of the new computer are nice (probably, I'm just installing software, I haven't stress-tested the new system yet). The main things I like about it are: the DVD drive works, it doesn't suddenly click off randomly, no blue screens of death describing dire hardware issues (which is better than the "imminent hard disk failure, press F1 to continue" on the 2004 laptop).
My dad got a similar Sony laptop recently, except that his is bigger (which I didn't want) and better (more than I need for the applications I run). Most of the weight in this thing seems to be in the battery.
I'm going to try installing Abyss web server and MySQL while I install The Sims 2 expansions.
The features of the new computer are nice (probably, I'm just installing software, I haven't stress-tested the new system yet). The main things I like about it are: the DVD drive works, it doesn't suddenly click off randomly, no blue screens of death describing dire hardware issues (which is better than the "imminent hard disk failure, press F1 to continue" on the 2004 laptop).
My dad got a similar Sony laptop recently, except that his is bigger (which I didn't want) and better (more than I need for the applications I run). Most of the weight in this thing seems to be in the battery.
I'm going to try installing Abyss web server and MySQL while I install The Sims 2 expansions.