I appear to have had a birthday today... And with it, came a brand new shiny laptop! :D My four-year-old one was really starting to give up (especially the screen) so I thought it was about time it was replaced. I now have a Toshiba Equium Dual Core 1.73GHz/2GB RAM/120GB HDD/15.4" widescreen/Windows Vista laptop. Its brightness makes me realise just how bad the screen from the last one was getting... I had both laptops on next to each other and it seemed like the old one wasn't even on.
I also got a digital photoframe from the boyfriend :D It's brilliant! You put in a memory card and it'll do a slideshow of the pictures. It'll also do alarm clocks and stuff but I'm not really interested in that... The fact that I can have a picture frame that changes its photo whenever I want (it even has a remote control for that XD ) is enough to keep me entertained for ages :D :D :D
Anyway, back to the laptop... Ooooooooh it's nice. The fact that it goes higher than 1024×768 is great - my photos fit on my screen now :P But like I said, it has Windows Vista on it. URGH. If I had an XP disk I'd install that on there - Vista is really quite rubbish. Ok so it looks shiny, but I can't find anything in it and most stuff that was simple in XP and prior is stupidly difficult in Vista. GAH. The fact that I can't change the colour of the taskbar is very annoying, as is the lack of themes and customisations. I don't want a black taskbar, I don't want weird blue-ish/transparent windows with huge borders, I want my own theme kthx. >:(
Apart from that, it's wonderful and I love it lots. <3<3<3<3 :D
Louise
28/08/2007 at 2:37
Happy birthday Amelie! Congrats on the new laptop!
Arg, Vista doesn't look too exciting to me. It's like XP with an OS-X/Linux inspired interface and heaps of annoying crap. I'm gonna request that my next PC have XP on it, unless Vista is absolutely necessary.
adastra
28/08/2007 at 8:27
Happy Birthday! And congratz on your new laptop! My next computer is gonna be a MacBook though - I've pretty much had enough of Windows. But I'll have to wait til next year for that...
Lee
28/08/2007 at 8:59
Happy Birthday Amelie!
Congratulations of the new laptop and photo frame, with the photo frame what is the largest size photo it will display?
Amber
28/08/2007 at 9:22
The computer talk flew right over my head but.... Happy Birthday!
Jamie
28/08/2007 at 23:04
Happy Birthday! When I got my new laptop last November, luckily it was only Vista Ready but it wasn't installed! The photo frame thing is really neat. I can't see paying the price for them but they are pretty darn neat!
@Louise
Microsoft won't be supporting XP much longer so my guess is, it will be really hard to buy XP let alone have it come with a new computer.
Kelly
29/08/2007 at 3:18
@ Jamie: It'll be at least another 18 months to two years before they stop supporting XP; give it till Vista SP1, if not SP2 :)
Happy belated birthday! The Toshiba Equiums are great, my boyfriends sister has a slightly older model that you, and it 's still working great. I tried to rebuild it a couple of weeks back; kept dying when I installed Windows Updates (there where around 200 of the blighters). Ended up having to install 5 updates at a time and now it works like a gem. You have shiny Vista on it, though so I'm sure you'll have no problems like that :D
Amelie
29/08/2007 at 7:57
^ Yeah, it'll be a while before they stop supporting XP. I think they only stopped supporting 98 about a year or so ago :P
Nan
29/08/2007 at 10:37
Happy belated birthday and congratulations on the new and shiny laptop. I hope you had a great day!
Tracey
29/08/2007 at 12:17
I'm late, sorry, but happy birthday Amelie!
Rachael
29/08/2007 at 19:29
Happy Birthday!
Yay for the new laptop. I've got vista for dummies on order from Amazon - I'll let you know if there's anything of use in there.
Ramsha
30/08/2007 at 2:58
Sorry I'm late! Happy belated birthday, Amelie.
My dad just bought a Toshiba laptop with the same features, and he seems to be having a long time getting used to Vista. That is creepy.
Jamie
31/08/2007 at 5:57
@ Amelie and Louise
I heard it will be really soon that they are gonna stop supporting XP. I heard it from my father and he usually keeps up to date on these things, but who knows!
Jamie
31/08/2007 at 6:00
** EDIT TO ABOVE **
Ahh found a link. Seems the original idea was to only support XP until 2009 but they've extended that until 2014 http://www.crn.com/software/197000329
Vera
31/08/2007 at 6:49
Oh have a very belated happy birthday from me too :-)
New laptop? Seems like it's the season for change (hehe I just got myself a new desktop computer as well... not a fan of laptops :P). May it server you long and well.
Ah yes the miracle of over 1024×768px. I still can't believe that my browser almost never sidescrolls (if maximized).
Rachael
31/08/2007 at 19:34
Saw this and thought of you.
http://www.bestvistadownloads.com/
Amelie
31/08/2007 at 19:56
^ Ha, thanks ;)
Almost looks spammy though, that site. Hmmm... Open Source FTW!
Rachael
31/08/2007 at 21:33
^ I'm not sure if it's spammy, or just badly designed... *shrug*
Jordie
2/09/2007 at 12:56
I am, of course, madly jealous.
Happy Birthday!
Malin
2/09/2007 at 20:54
Happy birthday! If I didn't have a brand new laptop myself I would be really jealous! ;)