upgrading

Well, it finally happened. The laptop bit it. On Thursday night it did it's last formal act - watching an episode of Grand Designs, as it happens, which is pretty all right as last acts go - and then Friday morning it wouldn't wake up. This laptop's been clearly terminal for quite a while now, but it was still sad... and a bit of a financial shock to realise that actually we needed to replace it right away, or our family system was going to combust. Madness.

So we went out a-questing on Saturday and came home victorious -with a Proper Computer nonetheless, and I set it up in under 30 minutes nonetheless, only to realise that it needed a wireless adaptor, duh, so we got up the next morning and a-questing found a usb adaptor, got home, plugged it in, and realised that it needed speakers, duh....

you get the picture.

Laptops do spoil you for the all-in-one-package deal, and it's a slow learning curve realising that pc's aren't quite so simple...

but Damn, it's fast.

I think I'm in love. Even in its current speakerless state, it's still a beautiful thing.