| January 29th, 2010 |
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So, I've been quiet for a few days, and have also not at all been reading LJ/DW, so I don't know what's going on in anyone's life unless I live with them. It's been a spectacularly rough week or so here, so.
Among other things, an irritation this week has been computer issues. My laptop Destiny is, for the time being, dead; total hard drive failure. This has been a contributing factor (along with some developments in hardware) to my buying a new laptop - not least because the i7 quad-core processors are now available on laptops at a non-hideous price, and now I don't need to get a desktop in order to be able to process video from my video camera, and suchlike tasks.
I am typing this from the third laptop we've brought home, because the first two had faulty drives too. (So far this one is fine, but it's from the same shipment, so I'm still slightly wary.)
On the bright side, this laptop is completely awesome. Among the seriously nifty features is that the processor's clocking is adjusted automagically to be at the level needed for current operations - thereby saving power when the computer doesn't need all that grunt - and it comes with a little desktop widget that tells you how fast the processor is running at the time. Base level is 1.60 GHz.
Now I just have to install everything and set it all up...
Meanwhile, I hear that Apple has called their tablet the iPad. methinks someone is too attached to a naming convention.
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