Laptop is finally here
Well, since I’m off work tonight, I finally have some extra time to write an entry here. My laptop got here on Friday, and I love it. I think I’ll end up buying laptops as primary computers in the future. I’d still like to get a Powerbook at some point. Upgrade my wireless to 802.11g, so I can get 54Mbps instead of 11Mbps. My DSL was upgraded finally, supposedly to 3.0 Mbit down, 640 Kbit up. Although I haven’t been able to really get those speeds. Not sure what’s up, I’ll have to phone Newtel Aliant soon to see about it.
I also got my laptop backpack today, from someone on eBay. Since I haven’t gotten around to taking a picture yet (or even of my laptop yet), here’s the eBay auction: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3434655792. It’s pretty nice, although the colour isn’t my favorite. But the blue one I saw like it elsewhere on eBay, I didn’t really like the seller, or his terms or shipping prices. But this will do. Much better than paying $100+ for a laptop bag that doesn’t even have all of the stuff this one does.
Tonight I’ll be rearranging files, so I can format xenon and put Linux on there. And I’ll be putting Windows XP Pro on my laptop later as well. It currently has Windows XP Home, plus lots of preinstalled crap. So right now, I have 2 legal XP Home keys, and 5 or 6 XP Pro keys. I still don’t like the idea of activation, though. I think it’s rather stupid. People that want to pirate it will just get around it anyway. So all it’s doing is annoying legal users of Windows XP (and now their office software too, apparently). I’m mostly using XP on my laptop for the wireless signal strength, and Cleartype. And fast boot times, I guess. Otherwise I’d be using Windows 2000 here, too. XP with the Watercolour visual style isn’t too bad. It looks to be based somewhat on the original visual style during the beta. Which was far better than the Fisher-Price visual style that ended up as the default.