Comments | veazey21: I am overcome

veazey21

I am overcome

Jan 07, 2008 15:09

Not many of you know this, but my grandparents left a life insurance policy that paid a sum to each of their grandchildren, in addition to their children. With this money, I purchased a new laptop ( Read more... )

computers, nerdishness

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redesigner January 8 2008, 02:47:32 UTC

Is that one of those ones like we looked at at the mall that had the stupid lighted air vents for no discernible reason?

veazey21 January 8 2008, 02:58:16 UTC

Smaller, newer, and without the stupidly lighted vents. If you remember the small one we looked at, it's that thing with a 15" screen instead of a 13". It's just about ideal, really. The only complaint I have is that the only built-in mousing device is a track-pad and I hate finger-painting my way through menus. And, apparently, it only has an ExpressCard slot and no PCMCIAs. Not a big deal, but I had thought it would come with at least one type-2 PCMCIA.

redesigner January 8 2008, 02:59:56 UTC

Meh. How often do you use PC cards anyway? And also, you can plug in a mouse.

veazey21 January 8 2008, 03:20:39 UTC

Yeah, I have a wireless Logitech mouse, but there appears to be a hardware problem. It doesn't click right, so I'm going to send it back and get another one. It's small, but still fits my hand well, and the transmitter is just a little USB dongle that plugs into the mouse itself. Very handy.

And the PCMCIA thing is almost a non-issue, especially since this actually has a FireWire port on it.

sleeptech81 January 8 2008, 04:53:33 UTC

Best part......... it's not a Mac!

veazey21 January 8 2008, 05:42:03 UTC

Correction: best part is that Steve Jobs doesn't have my financial walnuts in a jar on his desk.
I like Macs, for the most part, but his biggest-little-monopoly thinking really turns me off.

dead_13 January 8 2008, 15:47:18 UTC

i hear finger print scanners can cause you to have really bad headaches.. want to be a test case?

veazey21 January 8 2008, 15:50:33 UTC

I might not be your ideal test case. I mean, I've already got the bad headaches and had them well before I ever got my fingerprint scanner.

But if there's money involved, I'll do it.

dead_13 January 9 2008, 15:02:32 UTC

i hear that they scanners actually bend space time and cause the headaches a year and a half or so before you first com in contact with them.

the cure is in the pudding.

veazey21 January 9 2008, 15:08:35 UTC

I love pudding.
But, back to these scanners. How do they see? Do they see clearly, or darkly?