trenchkamen: (De-li-cious)
trenchkamen ([personal profile] trenchkamen) wrote2008-08-26 10:25 pm

Bringing sexy back

So Dell sent my new laptop. It's sexy. I was expecting a clunker from the refurbish bin as this is a warranty replacement, but since they could find none of the older laptops with my specs, they just sent me a new XPS M1330. With 4GB of RAM. No, rly. This is sexy. My only reservation is that the video card is one of the effected nVidia GForces, but I have been assured the motherboard won't fry this time. We'll see. I'm still obsessively backing up irreplaceable stuff.

Which reminds me: I DID have my re-organized GyakuSai doujin folder on my flash drive, so I'm happy in my pants about that.

My only complaint: Vista, enough said. It's running as fast as my 2GB computer did with 4GB. Way-to-go Microsoft.

I'm back to setting up my system and clearing off all the superfluous junk Dell decided to install on here.

[identity profile] astrokittie.livejournal.com 2008-08-27 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh god Vista. I feel your pain. D:

[identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com 2008-08-27 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish it would stop trying to be Mac OS. It's not.

[identity profile] thesawg.livejournal.com 2008-08-27 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Before you get everything in there, there are ways to get XP onto the new laptop.

[identity profile] trenchkamen.livejournal.com 2008-08-27 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm.

[identity profile] theonlynonny.livejournal.com 2008-08-27 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
what ever you do don't downgrade to xp, I did that and yeah still missing drivers for my laptop a year later. It is almost impossible to do it right.

[identity profile] theonlynonny.livejournal.com 2008-08-27 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
if you play a lot of games then downgrading can be helpful. But I downgraded my laptop, and am still missing drivrs for my ethernet jack for example. Only the wireless works and that took days to find. I had to look up drivers put them on a flash drive put them on the laptop and cross my fingers. Yeah finding the drivers is really hard if the computer is "made for vista"

[identity profile] thelastredbull.livejournal.com 2008-08-27 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Sexy icon is sexy <3