And the goals are going…
October 21st, 2006 | by lissie |
Well the new laptop arrived - have been setting up the laptop and set that up with newest versions of openoffice (much better than micrsoft and free!) www.openoffice.org , firefox - better browser than IE www.mozilla.com and picasa from our friends at google -excellent photo management tool The laptop is a 12″ NC4200 a HP ultraportable - so small it cant fit a DVD drive (though one comes separately which you just plug into a USB port). I’ve added a CD case to this picture for scale. The little box to the right is an external 60GB drive which I bought for an extra $120 - the idea is that it will act as a backup when we travel so that especially our photos are in 2 places - not just one! I am surprised to discover that the external drives are as fast via the USB as an internal drive - a whole lot faster than down loading to the MP3 player using the same USB. The drive is powered off the laptop so no need for another power cord. The laptop is a 1.8HZ with 1GB of ram - seems a little slower for games than our desktops but is perfectly fine for web development and email writing. It was deal thru trademe NZ$2000for a PC which when new would have been well over $3000 and has a 1 yr HP warranty. We could have got cheaper but the cheap ones are all plastic e.g. the Asus or Acer , while this is actually a metal alloy body nad has some sort of membrane to protect the keyboard for liquids. I’m just hoping it can handle the desert heat - I’m considering buying an external cooling bad for it.
As for the rest of this month’s gaols dont even ask - at least we have most of the building work finished on the house and I have packed 3 sacs of uneeded cloths to go to the Sally Arm store.
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