My new laptop

On Monday evening 27 October 2008, my trusty HP laptop developed a vertical line. HH tried to "fix" the problem by bending the LCD screen a little, hoping that we could move some liquid to cover the ones that were creating a problem. It didn't work. :-(

So I had to start looking for another laptop since I am totally distracted by that line.

On Tuesday morning, I called a good friend who used to work in HP and asked him - what sort of laptop should I get. He told me - look at the HP Compaq 6 series. So that started my quest for the new laptop.

I looked at Dell too, since they have all the pretty colours. In all honesty, I was eyeing a pink laptop but the price for the same configuration as the HP was more than double the price. The other not so attractive thing was the operating system - Windows Vista!! Having heard all the problems with Vista, I was determined to stay with trust XP!

On Wednesday morning, HH called Danny (a guy we know who works in a computer shop) and asked about the laptop I was eyeing. Danny said NO STOCK but you can have something cheaper that has a slightly older processor and has Windows XP Pro downgrade from Vista Business. Danny also promised me that it had a matt screen. Done deal - we booked the laptop and went to collect it and started the data migration.

So far so good - there are somethings from the old laptop that I miss. The old HP had 4 USB ports and a parallel printer port. This new thing only has 3 USB port and doesn't have a parallel printer port or the PCMCIA port. I cannot use the old printers that I have any more because I just cannot connect. The price of progress!

Anyway, to resolve the pink laptop I wanted - I went to http://www.garskin.com/ and selected a pink skin for my laptop for under S$50. It was delivered days later and immediately applied. I achieved my pink laptop without the hefty price that Dell demanded.

I am now content with my laptop!!