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rm- The historical ball gender thingy transpired without incident. Various people saw me and said "George Sand," and I smiled and nodded as this makes my existence historically acceptable.
I was glad that we could attend the event and also feel, at this point at least, that we could against next year. I remain internally deeply ambivalent about the gender/queer thing situation for reasons that are alternately too complicated and too boring to get into.
- In fact, being away this weekend was an absolute godsend and something we both totally needed.
- Too bad the return home has involved a clogged toilet, the previously posted about leak, and a good deal of cat puke. All of thise situations seem to have subsided for the moment. Real life is hard, and it has made me innordinately stressed out.
- To update on the leak sitaution, the boiler has cycled on again, but no more leaking for several hours. It just started again, now as the boiler is cycling off it seems.
- OMG, why does iTunes have none of hte music I want right now?
- Firefly! So that thing where Mal gets a wife? wow, that could have gone in a lot of different directions. Probably the most satisfying episode so far, and with a lot of odd character reveals. This goes on my list of "watch this show to learn how to structure/characterize."
- So I am thinking of buying a laptop sometime between now and mid-January. I need your input.
I am trying to decide between getting a Mac (anyone with info on timing because of impending new releases, let me know), a random PC netbook, and an actual proper PC laptop. There are pros and cons to all for me. My main needs are the Internet and word processing. Secondary needs are Excel, possibly Access. I use photoshop a lot, but realize that's a problem on Macs and will probably just continue with that on my old desktop. Ideally my budget is 1K or less. Obviously if I go with a net book type thing I want to spend a lot less, and I might conceivably push my budget for $1,400 for a Mac.
Thoughts?
I was glad that we could attend the event and also feel, at this point at least, that we could against next year. I remain internally deeply ambivalent about the gender/queer thing situation for reasons that are alternately too complicated and too boring to get into.
- In fact, being away this weekend was an absolute godsend and something we both totally needed.
- Too bad the return home has involved a clogged toilet, the previously posted about leak, and a good deal of cat puke. All of thise situations seem to have subsided for the moment. Real life is hard, and it has made me innordinately stressed out.
- To update on the leak sitaution, the boiler has cycled on again, but no more leaking for several hours. It just started again, now as the boiler is cycling off it seems.
- OMG, why does iTunes have none of hte music I want right now?
- Firefly! So that thing where Mal gets a wife? wow, that could have gone in a lot of different directions. Probably the most satisfying episode so far, and with a lot of odd character reveals. This goes on my list of "watch this show to learn how to structure/characterize."
- So I am thinking of buying a laptop sometime between now and mid-January. I need your input.
I am trying to decide between getting a Mac (anyone with info on timing because of impending new releases, let me know), a random PC netbook, and an actual proper PC laptop. There are pros and cons to all for me. My main needs are the Internet and word processing. Secondary needs are Excel, possibly Access. I use photoshop a lot, but realize that's a problem on Macs and will probably just continue with that on my old desktop. Ideally my budget is 1K or less. Obviously if I go with a net book type thing I want to spend a lot less, and I might conceivably push my budget for $1,400 for a Mac.
Thoughts?
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Date: 2008-12-08 08:55 am (UTC)I bought a laptop last January, and the main issue was the screen. I do a lot of writing and reading in all kinds of lighting conditions and want to see more than half a print page at a time. Which meant I wanted a matte (is that the right word? non-shiny/reflective, basically) screen, 4:3 instead of 16:9, and SXGA+.
There were only three PC types that provided that. I chose a Dell Latitude, because my previous laptop which had worked very well for 6 years until I tried to convince it to accept USB drives had been one. The new one isn't quite as satisfactory as the old one was, though: screen lighting is bad (especially on battery), text is slightly blurry (maybe I have not yet found the perfect setting), and keyboard is flimsy and tends to block.
At work I have a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook which is brilliant -- great screen, perfectly readable text, really tough, battery run time twice that of the Dell -- but it's two years old and last year they didn't offer any model within my parameters.