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hairyears for a very brief time to visit livredor.
It's been quite some time since I went away for a weekend (or indeed any period of time) just to visit people, (or at least, just to visit people who are not my family), and the opportunity was there.
Back in Lodnon on Saturday night, for I teach all day onJesus On A Stick Day Easter Sunday.
It isn't dark here any more, and I found that I DID put my gloves in my backpack after all. :)
Saw an ASUS Eee PC in the Dixon's at Heathrow, WANT. Did not get, because don't have £213 (which is the cost in airports). Having seen the thing, I'm still seriously tempted. It would be no good for composition stuff but as a general keeping-in-touch and life-organisation tool it has great potential.
More useful in the shorter term would be a USB stick that is actually small enough that I will put it on my keys and leave it there. All the ones I have had previously have been cheap-ass ones that end up getting lost, with the result that I ended up using a CD-R to transfer my assignment from laptop to Trinty computer yesterday morning... waste of a CD for an assignment less than 100K. Ordinarily I would just e-mail it, but with no internet access at home that isn't going to work, and the free wireless I used to be able to get in the Trinty caff seems to have evaporated (it wasn't provided by Trinty, so can't really complain at them about it).
Breakfast now. Starving!
hairyears for a very brief time to visit livredor. It's been quite some time since I went away for a weekend (or indeed any period of time) just to visit people, (or at least, just to visit people who are not my family), and the opportunity was there.
Back in Lodnon on Saturday night, for I teach all day on
It isn't dark here any more, and I found that I DID put my gloves in my backpack after all. :)
Saw an ASUS Eee PC in the Dixon's at Heathrow, WANT. Did not get, because don't have £213 (which is the cost in airports). Having seen the thing, I'm still seriously tempted. It would be no good for composition stuff but as a general keeping-in-touch and life-organisation tool it has great potential.
More useful in the shorter term would be a USB stick that is actually small enough that I will put it on my keys and leave it there. All the ones I have had previously have been cheap-ass ones that end up getting lost, with the result that I ended up using a CD-R to transfer my assignment from laptop to Trinty computer yesterday morning... waste of a CD for an assignment less than 100K. Ordinarily I would just e-mail it, but with no internet access at home that isn't going to work, and the free wireless I used to be able to get in the Trinty caff seems to have evaporated (it wasn't provided by Trinty, so can't really complain at them about it).
Breakfast now. Starving!
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Date: 2008-03-21 09:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-21 09:30 am (UTC)It's great for random internets and checking mail etc. It also has full version of openoffice on it so you can do all the word/excel stuff you need to on it.
Not good for spending vast amounts of time on as the screen is a bit small.
I know that people have reformatted it (NOT ME) to run MAC OS and Windows XP, and that they will be bringing out an XP version this year, though it will be rather more pricey due to software costs. However it could be a consideration for you if you (a) have a version of XP already (b) have suitable tech expertise / friends (c) need to put your music software on it.
The only slight gripe I have with it is that the touch pad can be a little stroppy on occasion, oh yes, and the "1" key is further to the left than on a conventional keyboard.
Other than that, I love it!
(Got the white one - I think it also comes in black, green, pink and blue but not sure whether the fancy colours are available over here yet).
I think mine cost £270 before christmas from http://www.asuslaptop.co.uk but you may want to do some price checking.
Mine is the most fancy version (4gb)
It does have puzzle bobble, some other fun bits, tetris, a typing tutor (with penguins and a dodgy vocabulary) and ONLY TAKES ABOUT 10 SECONDS TO BOOT!!!
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Date: 2008-03-21 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-22 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-11 03:33 am (UTC)So I used an eeePC, and was not impressed. The small screen and keyboard just irritated me - it wasn't small enough to justify the loss... What I did find extremely impressive though, was the iPhone (or if you don't need phone, the iPod Touch). It truly allows me to do everything on the go when I need to. It didn't entirely out of the box, but after a 5-minute hack that let me install all sorts of 3rd-party applications, it does. I now have the pieces it was missing like a terminal from which I can ssh to other machines, a VNC client, an instant messenger, various other useful stuff, and a boatload of games. ;) I even have a local cache of wikipedia that I can search even when no internet connection is available at all. They start at $300, and the phone gives you an internet connection just about anywhere without having to hunt down wifi, which to me is incredibly useful as I am in strange locations a lot. It's a lot more portable than the eeePC, and with a little effort, can do all the same stuff.
(P.S. I also have a Macbook Air and quite like it, but that's really as small as a laptop should be, in my opinion, as the keyboard is still full-size and the display is quite a lot larger).
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Date: 2008-04-11 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-11 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-11 10:24 am (UTC)*guilty look* maybe I somehow lost you when I changed accounts?