logomancer | It's Heeeeeere.... (Reply)

The laptop came today. Actually, it was still at the FedEx center, waiting to be delivered, but I went over there and bugged them until they gave it to me. It's a bit on the heavy side, and, unfortunately, doesn't fit into my laptop backpack, which means I'll need a case. One more thing to get on Friday...

I played a little with it today. It came with XP Home on it. I reformatted and installed 2000, but I then found out that the video card doesn't have drivers for 2000. So I had to reinstall XP. That took a while. Then I had to reinstall all the drivers, add the CD burning software (I don't trust XP's), the DVD viewer, and the copy of Encyclopedia Britannica I got in the bundle. And that's as far as I got. I had a copy of OpenOffice on a CD, but I remembered that I didn't have the JRE installed to run it effectively. Poop.

I'll be playing with it more tomorrow, but tonight...er, this morning, I must get sleep, as I have work to do.