This here is posted using a new laptop! \o/

OK. So the new laptop arrived. It's a Dell XPS M1530, running on a T6600 2.20 GHz Core 2 Duo processor with 4 GB of RAM. And it's been couriered here about a whole week earlier than they projected on their order tracking site, and I was thrown off because I didn't expect it to arrive today. But arrived it did, so now I am typing this on a new laptop while trying not to sigh too much over Vista. It's not too bad -- aside from having some hitches trying to locate things, it hasn't caused any major trouble yet.

I was tempted to upgrade to a faster processor and more RAM but eh. Too expensive. Besides, it's not like any hardcore gaming goes on around here any more.

I'm quite pleased with the laptop! It's faster than anything I've ever owned -- but of course it is, the last laptop was something like four years old, upgraded a few times, and yet with only 1 GB of memory when it died. The design and layout is a lot like the old laptop, so there's not much adjusting to do and the keyboard is surprisingly smooth. No going clackety-clack like the office PC.

The old laptop isn't really dead. The screen flickers and sometimes just goes blank, but it still boots up fine. Which is a good thing, because I can still transfer files from it to this new laptop. I'm pretty much blindly copying things into an external drive and sorting through the files . . . it looks like I accumulated quite a lot of junk over the years! Part of the reason is the CD burner on the old laptop stopped working and I never replaced it. The external DVD burner we had had issues with my laptop, so things just . . . sat there on the hard drive. Oh well.

Things already moved -- my Firefox profile (how glad I am to have it back? Very. Not remembering your passwords: Not A Smart Thing) and iTunes. Slowly finding other things I need to download/install: mostly things like text editors and . . . and. I'm not really sure what else. I'll figure it out when I need to use them, I'm sure.

Once I get things settled I should go deal with other Important Things! Like signing up for ff_exchange before some people who are, uh, sure that 1000 words wouldn't be a problem for me to write come chasing after me with a pitchfork or a similar sharp implement!



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Also watching Fullmetal Alchemist on Animax and going augh Hughes why ;_;. Knowing what happens beforehand doesn't help at all. ;_;