The New Arrival
Nov. 13th, 2008 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rorqualLadies, and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet my new laptop! Yes, I am coming to you live from my couch, on a normal sized keyboard (actually, after Brigit, I think this computer is huge), as I install, uninstall, update, add, edit, and delete a variety of stuff on the new machine. Eventually, I will transfer all my data from my old desktop, figure out how to attach my existing monitor and keyboard to this one, and allow my rattling, slighty burny-smelling desktop to retire gracefully. It was the first computer I ever bought, having gotten most of my computers as other people's cast-offs, and it did a good job. But today ushers in a new era of computing. Aren't you glad you were here?!?
ETA: Also, I'm usually not a design nerd, but I have to say the way the machine was packed into the box was pretty nicely done, and made getting it out a total breeze. Also, I'd like to thank FedEx - I left a note begging them to leave the box (because they weren't supposed to leave it, they needed me there to sign), and they didn't - but they did leave the delivery supervisor's number, and when I called him, he sent his driver back within 45 minutes. This is in direct opposition to the last time someone shipped me something using FedEx, where they couldn't find my house (!!!), yet claimed they were leaving notes at it (they actually claimed both things - not that they were at the wrong house, but that there was no house - but where did they leave notes?), and actually shipped my package back to Canada before they worked it out. So, 50/50, not bad.
ETA: Also, I'm usually not a design nerd, but I have to say the way the machine was packed into the box was pretty nicely done, and made getting it out a total breeze. Also, I'd like to thank FedEx - I left a note begging them to leave the box (because they weren't supposed to leave it, they needed me there to sign), and they didn't - but they did leave the delivery supervisor's number, and when I called him, he sent his driver back within 45 minutes. This is in direct opposition to the last time someone shipped me something using FedEx, where they couldn't find my house (!!!), yet claimed they were leaving notes at it (they actually claimed both things - not that they were at the wrong house, but that there was no house - but where did they leave notes?), and actually shipped my package back to Canada before they worked it out. So, 50/50, not bad.
