So I bought me a new laptop! Toshiba A100-L02, 15.4inch widescreen, 120MB HDD (albeit made up of 2x60MB HDDs… they didn’t mention that bit), dual core processor, 1GB RAM, Vista (not bad at all) all for £500, and PSP11 thrown in for £40. It’s shiny… (well, it’s matt, but it’s new so that has a certain shininess quality about it). And the lights are all blue, rather than amber.
I quite like Vista. So far. It’s run all the programs I’ve asked it to – Firefox, Sunbird, Trillian, PSP11 and Notepad+ – and it has variable transparency on the window title bars (simple things please me). I like transparency. I like the swoopyness too. And the switching windows bit (where you see all the windows in a chain). I think it thinks I’m an idiot though…
Me: Why isn’t Wireless working?
Vista: Have you switched it on?
Me: It’s enabled.
Vista: Yes, but have you switched it on? There’s an actual switch on the side of the computer.
Me: … oh.
—some time passes—
Me: Ok, it’s on but it’s still not working.
Vista: You’re using the wrong password.
Me: … oh.
Vista: *pats*
I’ve decided the best way to explain about me and computers to my non-computing friends is to draw a comparison to Jeremy Clarkson and cars. Yes, I have some already. No, one is not enough. Yes, despite knowing it’s the power and ability that counts part of me is slightly swayed by blue lights, swoopiness and variable transparency. No, I will never voluntarily buy a pink one.
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