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Now blogging from a new laptop

By Alan W Collins on Tuesday 8th January 2008 19:15 / 2 comments

HP 6720s

It has finally happened – after months of pain and agony dealing with Dell, I have finally purchased a brand new (non-Dell) laptop.

After a superb Christmas and birthday, I was able to head to ebuyer and snatch the HP 6720s I had been looking at for a couple of weeks.

It hasn’t all gone as smoothly as I’d have liked, however, as one-third of my order ended up being replaced by a package for elsewhere in Twydall after a delivery driver error.

That aside, the issue should be fixed tomorrow, meaning that I can double the memory of my new machine so that it can run Windows Vista just that little bit better (click here to see what is significant about this).

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2 Comments

Cllr John Ward says:

Tuesday 8th January 2008 at 20:28

Well done for getting your new toy! A good start to 2008, hopefully.

Ahh! Vista… American stuff. I rarely bother with all that gubbins, and don’t need to.

My first British-designed and made RiscPC (I have two of ‘em up and running) has been operating trouble-free since I first got it in August 1994, and rarely needs more than a third of its 48 Megabytes of memory.

It is running a 1600 x 1200 true colour display (on a 21″ Sony Multiscan HG) and runs the electronic fax (I have never had a fax “machine”), ‘phone call logging, various other tasks, and is my printer server — my huge HP 2550 colour laser printer. Of necessity it is left on permanently, though with the monitor switched off when I am not in attendance (i.e. I am out, or overnight).

Oh, and my latest “separates” computer is also British (it comes from Oldham!)and takes less than three Watts of power (plus whatever any attached display needs).

These are ARM-powered computers, not Intel or equivalent. Interestingly, there are far more ARM processors in the world than Intel CPUs — truly a British triumph worldwide.

Did I ever mention how proud I am to be British, by the way?
Alan Collins says:

Tuesday 8th January 2008 at 20:47

Well thank you, John. I think we’re all hoping for a good 2008!

I think that being proud to be British should run in the blood of everyone who calls this small, sensational island home – even when governments may ocassionally do things which make you think “why do I bother?”.