{"id":8732,"date":"2018-06-28T16:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:02:43","slug":"so-far-so-good-the-new-laptop-is-light-really-light-its-fast-solid-state-drive-holds-the-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/so-far-so-good-the-new-laptop-is-light-really-light-its-fast-solid-state-drive-holds-the-os\/","title":{"rendered":"So far so good. The new laptop is light&#8212;really light. It&#8217;s fast. (Solid state drive holds the OS)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the keyboard has a nice touch. If you&#8217;re used to Dells. The sd reader does not let you leave the card in&#8230;it sticks out about halfway, so it wouldn&#8217;t be wise. And we have had issues with that. But the screen is nice, the speed is good, and thanks to Carbonite&#8217;s excellent on phone assistance, we managed to get both my Win 7 and my Win 10 computers happy at once with the same files. It&#8217;s different. I haven&#8217;t been able to dissuade it from powering down (but not off) when I close the lid, but that&#8217;s minor.<\/p>\n<p>I am slowly dragging stuff *I* want into the display of choices. Jane found me Spider Solitaire and Mahjong, which are necessities of life.<\/p>\n<p>And last night our garden prowler was back. Jane chided me for going out after it in the dark without waking her, but I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s a neighborhood cat, nothing too fierce. I have sprinkled Havahart black pepper where it can get to the water, and maybe that will discourage it. Fish do swim on bright nights, since they have a kind of radar that operates along their lateral line, and I don&#8217;t want them investigating that pond edge with company perched there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the keyboard has a nice touch. If you&#8217;re used to Dells. The sd reader does not let you leave the card in&#8230;it sticks out about halfway, so it wouldn&#8217;t be wise. And we have had issues with that. But the screen is nice, the speed is good, and thanks to Carbonite&#8217;s excellent on phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}