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[bunn]

The power socket for my laptop has really truly finally died this time, and after a new power cord, a new keyboard, sugru to hold the disintegrating case and power socket together, I think the dratted thing is finally on the way out this time.   Who knew a Vaio would be so fragile?  Although I think it's lasted me since 2011, so I suppose that by modern standards its lifetime was not excessively short.

Laptop purchasing is a horrid nightmarish confusopoly, even choosing with the help of Pp who builds his own machines.  In the end, I have ordered an Asus N550JK.   It will come with Windows 8*, oh no, and it will no doubt take three days to ensure it is all set up as I want it. Drattitude.

* Before anyone pops up to say 'why not another OS'...- I'm sticking with Windows.  I fully expect Windows 8 to be baffling and horrible, but any OS I don't know is bound to be baffling and horrible, and this way at least I should be able to keep most of the software I know how to use.  Just the idea of going through it all to find out if it will all run on anything else fills me with dread, let alone the idea of having to find non-Windows alternatives and learn their quirks.  I like learning, but not that kind!

Don't get me wrong, I love Linux as a server OS, everything I build is hosted on Linux and I turn away any work that requires a Windows server.  But for a desktop machine, I want my oooooold familiar horrible applications that have calcified habitually around me like a shell over the years.  I did briefly consider going cloud-based with a Chromebook, but I have enough hassle with Google randomly changing their mind about their web interfaces all the time, I would like to keep some control!

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

I went through a phase of always having blue ones, but I seem to have moved away from that now : the Vaio was black and this new one is sort of brushed metal. I am amazed it took computer manufacturers so long to work out that people quite like to buy things that are in different colours, and that neither beige nor black are the Only Colours in the Box...

That sounds hopeful about 8.1, thanks for the tips! I had assumed I wouldn't need to know 8 at all and could breeze from 7 to 10, so I really have no idea about it.