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New laptop came yesterday. It is wonderful, I love it.
Bigger than I thought it would be
Came with everything installed and battery charged, switched it on (no mains) and it just went
High res screen (1400x?) makes my eyes bleed
It is light enough to sit on lap comfortably, although warm towards the end
It ran for an evening's worth which is ok, although the optional extra battery pack is tempting
Wireless network can play Milkshake video. Problems playing videos from BBC site which could be due to BBC or supply
Played DVD's nicely
Sound is a little too quiet.
Installed mozilla incredibly quickly.
It seems much faster than old 1GHz home PC or 300MHz PC at work.
Rushed out to buy a DLink DE624 wireless router. After some worries from studying the box that it was not really IEE802.??g compliant I went to their web site to find that it very much was so. Replaced the Orico wired router and got it all going with no big problems. I Get good signal strength in the lounge, at times it seemed faster than the wired connection upstairs with the old router. I flashed the firmware and enabled WAP(?) security so nobody in the street can leech off my wireless broadband connection (surprising that by default there is absolutely no security, just pluck any wireless connection out of the air). The MAC address in the router is programmable and I had to set it to the same value as my old router for the broadband to work. Not a problem for now but if I sell the old router I may have to register the new routers own address for it all to work, I'm not sure of these details.
The firmware in the new router is much nicer, I had to read the manual to realise that the firmware is flashed by (in effect) uploading the file to the server's 'website'. Good idea. The CD it comes with has nothing but accursed PDF files on it.
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