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farlaI have a new laptop. (Better still, a new laptop without having my old one break first!)
There is exactly one thing I don't like it, which is that it comes with a webcam. A webcam is one of those things that I would pay extra to avoid. And it comes with a manual volume control! That was probably my most important consideration. There's also a neat toggle for on/off wireless, which I wanted but wasn't expecting to get. On top of all this, it was cheap, probably because I'm not supposed to want these things.
Navigating the programs is an exercise in horror. I didn't really realize how much I'm avoiding standard products until I saw what sort of stuff is coming preloaded. It's enough to make me want to replace the whole operating system on general principles. The new version of Word believes hitting the enter key means you want a double return! No, Word, if I wanted that I'd hit the key twice, like God intended! And I can't even find the undo button to tell it to stop autocorrecting what I type. It's too busy being shiny to actually function. I used Internet Explorer once, just long enough to find and download Firefox, and in that time my eyes began to bleed. Currently, I'm installing OpenOffice.
I just need a few more tweaks (stop grouping things on the taskbar, Pute-chan) and things should be perfect. Well, aside from the fact it's running Vista.
Now I'm off to see how many Youtube videos I can run at once.
There is exactly one thing I don't like it, which is that it comes with a webcam. A webcam is one of those things that I would pay extra to avoid. And it comes with a manual volume control! That was probably my most important consideration. There's also a neat toggle for on/off wireless, which I wanted but wasn't expecting to get. On top of all this, it was cheap, probably because I'm not supposed to want these things.
Navigating the programs is an exercise in horror. I didn't really realize how much I'm avoiding standard products until I saw what sort of stuff is coming preloaded. It's enough to make me want to replace the whole operating system on general principles. The new version of Word believes hitting the enter key means you want a double return! No, Word, if I wanted that I'd hit the key twice, like God intended! And I can't even find the undo button to tell it to stop autocorrecting what I type. It's too busy being shiny to actually function. I used Internet Explorer once, just long enough to find and download Firefox, and in that time my eyes began to bleed. Currently, I'm installing OpenOffice.
I just need a few more tweaks (stop grouping things on the taskbar, Pute-chan) and things should be perfect. Well, aside from the fact it's running Vista.
Now I'm off to see how many Youtube videos I can run at once.
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Date: 2009-01-26 01:40 pm (UTC)Oh, yeah, Mom managed to find it eventually, because she's used it at work. The shortcut's useful, though, since I can't seem to find where the help section is and find these things out myself. (I don't think it'll matter - it's on a license where you can only open it twenty-five times, and there is no way in hell I'm buying it. If OpenOffice fails, it'll be less frustrating to convince Vista to run pre-2000 Word instead. Even if that's impossible, it'll still be less frustrating.)