This is my brain on Post-it notes
Oct. 14th, 2008 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammarwomanWell, there's nothing like getting the stick after the carrot. I glumly decided that I couldn't justify the Burbank trip, what with the economy tanking and making muddy the solid financial ground I thought we'd found. Then the husband's car broke AGAIN, and yeah, it looks like we're going to have another case of happy bonus money being eaten by mundane costs.
This is on top of entering week five of cold symptoms, and having the PA diagnose it as a combination of cold and allergies. (I staunchly maintain that this doesn't feel like any case of allergies I've had before, since I don't want to scratch my face off, but the chest congestion is driving me batty.) Plus the husband is on antibiotics for his own sinus infection, and the Emperor's birthday is in two weeks and 75% of the prospective guest list have already canceled, and I'm evidently insane because I'm actually pondering hosting Christmas this year, and...the brain, it just doesn't stop.
However, I am bound and determined to find some silver lining here, so I am by gum going to get myself a new laptop.
Of course, now this opens up a huge Vista* of dithering. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go PC rather than Mac, as much as I still feel brand loyalty to the latter company. I'm poking around the Dell site, especially the outlet deals, but there are so many choices for my limited brain power! My needs list is: supports basically unlimited online surfing, including as many YouTube offerings in a row as I want; runs Microsoft Office; supports whatever software I need to start vidding; wireless is a given; as big a hard drive and as much RAM as I can get; DVD RW drive; decent battery life.
I am useless when it comes to hardware, I know, and it's a willful blind spot. That's one of the reasons I count on my husband so much.
So, anybody feel like offering an opinion on computers, especially when it comes to specs and software to enable vidding?
* Vista = DO NOT WANT. Do they actually sell computers loaded with Windows XP anymore?
This is on top of entering week five of cold symptoms, and having the PA diagnose it as a combination of cold and allergies. (I staunchly maintain that this doesn't feel like any case of allergies I've had before, since I don't want to scratch my face off, but the chest congestion is driving me batty.) Plus the husband is on antibiotics for his own sinus infection, and the Emperor's birthday is in two weeks and 75% of the prospective guest list have already canceled, and I'm evidently insane because I'm actually pondering hosting Christmas this year, and...the brain, it just doesn't stop.
However, I am bound and determined to find some silver lining here, so I am by gum going to get myself a new laptop.
Of course, now this opens up a huge Vista* of dithering. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go PC rather than Mac, as much as I still feel brand loyalty to the latter company. I'm poking around the Dell site, especially the outlet deals, but there are so many choices for my limited brain power! My needs list is: supports basically unlimited online surfing, including as many YouTube offerings in a row as I want; runs Microsoft Office; supports whatever software I need to start vidding; wireless is a given; as big a hard drive and as much RAM as I can get; DVD RW drive; decent battery life.
I am useless when it comes to hardware, I know, and it's a willful blind spot. That's one of the reasons I count on my husband so much.
So, anybody feel like offering an opinion on computers, especially when it comes to specs and software to enable vidding?
* Vista = DO NOT WANT. Do they actually sell computers loaded with Windows XP anymore?
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Date: 2008-10-14 06:08 pm (UTC)*gives you hot honey/lemon tea for the plague*
Please, for the love all that is holy… DON'T GET A DELL! I have fought my mother's since she took it out of the box (plus just ask IG how good her Dell is. eep). The laptop I recently bought is a Toshiba Satellite A305 and it's really frelling good and it wasn't very expensive (with tax I paid just over $800) at Best Buy. There are others of the same brand more inexpensive, mine is just geared toward heavy graphics since I wanted something for vidding.
Sadly all computers are coming with Vista now and Microsoft is discontinuing support for XP soon. I prefer XP myself because Vista has a bunch of crap with it I do not want or need.
I know there are folks that are way more computer savvy than me, but I just wanted to share what works for me.