Getting a more readable headline font.
She was going to work today. Then her new computer came.
I’ll let her tell you the wonderfulness of it.
This is for the one of us that uses the art programs. I’ll slog along with my old faithful Latitude…not blinding fast. SLow but steady.
Looks good. I have to admit it took me a few times dropping in before I realized that WWAS meant Wave Without a Shore. Yeah, I’m slow somedays.
New computers are fun. I hope to replace mine soon, too, since it’s starting to get delusions of paperweight-ness.
Gotten too overloaded. Even back in the days of W95, we used to say once a year it needed to be wiped out and reloaded from scratch. One might suggest a different OS that isn’t so plagued by others dumping all sort of stuff on it. 😉 Do you really need all that, er, stuff?
p.s. Have your browser ask you before accepting cookies from Tom, Dick, and Hairy, and Deny everything that isn’t from a site you have a long-term relationship with, and there’s a real need to keep bonafides. Then have it ask before downloading and “helpers”, rejecting most of them. There’s really no reason why a computer should “slow down” if managed properly. 😉
One of these days I suppose I’ll get a laptop. But in the meantime, I be content with my Kindle Fire, which I think is pretty great — especially now that it has a couple of CJC Foreigner books on it.
Lol—my laptop, and Jane’s, ARE our computers. We have a creaking old multi-drive desktop we built, what, nearly ten years ago? that holds the financial stuff and is the working backup for various files…but backup is less important since we got Carbonite. Just suspenders with the belt. Once HP fixes Jane’s old laptop, which has fairly well lost its mind, now, we think we’ll probably disconnect the pretty, modded old guy, which has nowhere to sit except on the floor under the desk anyway, and have Jane’s old laptop as the center of our network. Probably we’ll just connected the extant monitor to it, and leave the case shut, while IT sits on the floor under the desk.
Jane’s new computer, now, is quite spiff, and blazing fast: has a small solid-state drive to hold the OS and some essential programs: you may IMAGINE how fast. With programs like Paintshop and such—where the old laptop required you to draw, say, hair, as a series of lines done blind, because the computer would take several seconds to build a display of what you’d just drawn—continually behind—this one will display her work realtime, so she knows where her pen-tip actually is. [I can’t personally imagine how she’s done what she has on the old compy.]
For me, however, since I don’t use those programs but once in a blue moon, my faithful old workhorse of a Latitude E550 is just quite fine. It’s small, comfy, and has had two keyboard replacements, so it works like new. I *might* treat myself to an extension of the service policy—having a nice gentleman with a pocket protector show up and replace any failed part (on one of ours we replaced the keyboard four times, the monitor screen once and the motherboard once during its lifetime, so that policy is worth its weight in new computer) —is a real nice feature, especially if you get the no-fault option. This means if you hook your foot in the power cord and sling the thing from couch to floor, or overset a full cup of coffee onto the keyboard and into the works [did this once)—it’s no-fault, and they replace what broke.
Russ works only with laptops, but then he has to since he’s on the road often. In fact, he usually takes two with him: his work computer and his personal computer.
I have my trusty desktop computer, which I love, and a little netbook that I use on the rare occasions I’m not sitting here. In fact, I did a fun blog post about my spot: http://zette.blogspot.com/2012/03/welcome-to-z-command-center.html
A couple days later I moved things. LOL
“three weather stations. None of them have ever agreed on data, which has led to the likely theory that at least two are linked to alternate realities…”
Ah, but WHICH two? That’s the question! 😉
Oh no, that’s the easy one to answer. They’re the two which consistently show better weather than where I’m at. They’re taunting me.
Solid state drives are the biz. Sue and I both travel the world with Macbook Airs, and find it really difficult to go back to our desktop from computers that take less than twenty seconds from pressing the power button to finishing downloading all the new emails … A colleague who’s just retrofitted an SSD in place of the c drive in an older Windows machine says it has the same impact there.
For everyone who is suffering from pollen related allergies:
http://boingboing.net/2012/03/20/happy-spring.html
Apparently the deep South is getting smodged with record pollen counts. My deepest sympathies to anyone who wakes up to find their car (bike, house, etc.) covered in this.
My car has been green for 3 days. It will remain so for the next 3 weeks or so. ick. Every year it is miserable as all the surrounding plants and trees attempt to have sex in my sinuses.
G-lug. We got snowed-upon yesterday—after St. Paddy’s Day, yet—usually that’s the time by which the deepest snow has all melted; Seishi is shedding bigtime; the quince is all ready to break into bloom; the koi are coming out—I saw Ari and Amy, maybe Maddy, and Renji…but no, we get snow and a skin of ice on the pond.