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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
So after much deliberation, I made my decision and went for a Dell XPS M1300. Thank you to everyone who helped me in the comments, but in the end it came down to a combination of size, features and price. The model I've ordered has everything I wanted, but for half the price I was originally expecting to pay; the other windows machines couldn't really compete.
The only other one that left was an Apple, but with the money I'll have left over from this I can buy myself a mac mini and still have enough to ...
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Singing word-like gibberish sounds loudly to the tune of "Ain't no sunshine" by the Lighthouse Family, while programming and excitedly waggling my head around in time to the beat, and then looking up at the completely-not-soundproofed window and catching the postman staring in with a perplexed look on his face.
Yet another reason to keep the curtains drawn.
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Hope everyone has had a good easter! But seriously, where did those four days go? More to the point, where did all that chocolate go?
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My Vaio Z1XMP is approaching its fourth birthday, but sadly it doesn't look like it'll make it.
Over those four years it has picked up its fair share of minor blemishes - the plastic wrist rest area has come away, the screen has been pressed too hard at some point, so isn't a consistent brightness. Little things, like the broken space bar spring. Then there were the inherent problems, like lack of CPU power or lack of screen brightness when on battery. Or that it gets so hot it actually burns my legs if I don't put ...
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So my replacement screen arrived yesterday. I boxed up my old screen first thing in the morning before I started work, and spent most of the day on my laptop - but more on that later.
The guy rolled up at about 4pm, but the return label was on the new box, so we had to unpack my old screen and put it in the box the new one came in. Bit ridiculous, but I can see the sense in it. It all happened so fast - he had it packed and in his van before I'd barely had a chance ...
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