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I Like Things That Come In Miniature
Aug. 14th, 2008 12:28 amAll has been quiet on this front, if you don't count me cursing computer repair people from here to a place far from here.
My laptop is not dying a horrible death, and merely needs a new hard drive, which will almost certainly be covered by it's warranty, whenever the repair people get around to telling the warranty people about it, and then they can be bothered confirming and then the parts are ordered and then put in.
Regardless, this will be Some Time In The Future, and upon discovering late today that the system is moving even more glacially than expected, we decided just to go ahead and grab a new filler system.
Voila, I am now the owner of a Very Very Small Laptop - an Acer Aspire One, which should do a nice job of fulfilling my requirements while travelling, and until I can get my merely Quite Small Laptop back. I've got the XP system, with the 120gig SATA drive, rather than the Linux one with the small but cool 8gig flash drive, and functionally it's pretty much just a very small laptop sans optical drive.
For me, the portability is a huge plus, as was the immediate availability of it and the small price ($850). I suspect some people would really hate the teensy keyboard, but I have tiny hands, so I'm pretty close to adoring it already. The optical drive isn't a loss for me as I barely ever use one, and if I find I do want one, I'll just pick up an external. The only real negative, as far as I can tell so far, is that it's only got a 3 cell, so it's battery life is bizarrely short (2ish hours) for something theoretically designed to be ultra-portable.
Still: a very cheap solution to my irritating problem, and a further advance on my plan to only own electronics that fit in handbags.
This one is a big win for that - I don't even need a particularly big handbag - it fits in (completely, zipped up, while holding other stuff like my wallet) my standard shoulder bag.
In other 'things that are small' news - Dan and I have, we think, managed to compress everything we need for several months travel into one bag each, which should make travelling more convenient (and leave a nice amount of baggage allowance for hauling home important things, like instant grits, candy and small pairs of Nikes for neices and nephews).
Almost completely packed, To Do List reduced to one sorting and dropping off job and tidying, pretty much. Solution found for the Argh Laptop problem. It's been a productive week.
I'm actually starting to look forward to the whole thing now we're almost gone. It's easier without the pressure of things I have to do. Plus, since we're now going to Columbus first, I have the Blackwell to look forward to.
And (probably) a very brief stopover in LA (like early afternoon on Sat 16th through to early next morning). If we get a car or whatever, we might get to get out and see someone, if any of you LA peoples are free (please note all the ifs and maybes in this statement. As always, our plans are fluider than we'd like them to be).
Now, I must continue on the 'remembering what things have to be downloaded and installed' path.
Later gators
C.
My laptop is not dying a horrible death, and merely needs a new hard drive, which will almost certainly be covered by it's warranty, whenever the repair people get around to telling the warranty people about it, and then they can be bothered confirming and then the parts are ordered and then put in.
Regardless, this will be Some Time In The Future, and upon discovering late today that the system is moving even more glacially than expected, we decided just to go ahead and grab a new filler system.
Voila, I am now the owner of a Very Very Small Laptop - an Acer Aspire One, which should do a nice job of fulfilling my requirements while travelling, and until I can get my merely Quite Small Laptop back. I've got the XP system, with the 120gig SATA drive, rather than the Linux one with the small but cool 8gig flash drive, and functionally it's pretty much just a very small laptop sans optical drive.
For me, the portability is a huge plus, as was the immediate availability of it and the small price ($850). I suspect some people would really hate the teensy keyboard, but I have tiny hands, so I'm pretty close to adoring it already. The optical drive isn't a loss for me as I barely ever use one, and if I find I do want one, I'll just pick up an external. The only real negative, as far as I can tell so far, is that it's only got a 3 cell, so it's battery life is bizarrely short (2ish hours) for something theoretically designed to be ultra-portable.
Still: a very cheap solution to my irritating problem, and a further advance on my plan to only own electronics that fit in handbags.
This one is a big win for that - I don't even need a particularly big handbag - it fits in (completely, zipped up, while holding other stuff like my wallet) my standard shoulder bag.
In other 'things that are small' news - Dan and I have, we think, managed to compress everything we need for several months travel into one bag each, which should make travelling more convenient (and leave a nice amount of baggage allowance for hauling home important things, like instant grits, candy and small pairs of Nikes for neices and nephews).
Almost completely packed, To Do List reduced to one sorting and dropping off job and tidying, pretty much. Solution found for the Argh Laptop problem. It's been a productive week.
I'm actually starting to look forward to the whole thing now we're almost gone. It's easier without the pressure of things I have to do. Plus, since we're now going to Columbus first, I have the Blackwell to look forward to.
And (probably) a very brief stopover in LA (like early afternoon on Sat 16th through to early next morning). If we get a car or whatever, we might get to get out and see someone, if any of you LA peoples are free (please note all the ifs and maybes in this statement. As always, our plans are fluider than we'd like them to be).
Now, I must continue on the 'remembering what things have to be downloaded and installed' path.
Later gators
C.
