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Right now, I am writing this entry on my NEW COMPUTER! Oh my GOSH it is so exciting! I am making so many mistakes while typing due to the craziness of having a new keyboard to get used to!

So far windows vista hasn't been tooooooo annoying, but I do have a totally stupid amount of RAM and processing power (at least compared to my old baby, can you say, going from 256megabites of ram to 2 FUCKING GIGS plus 2.o gigahertz of processing speed???? MADNESS!). The glory of this is shown by the fact that currently I'm using firefox AND I'm uploading 4gigs of comics to my computer from disk at the same time a feat which my old baby would have just laughed at me if I'd tried to achieve. :/ Only down side so-far is that the image quality is slightly less than my old beasty but that's what you get for having cheap LCD. When I can afford it, I will get a new monitor... maybe...

Anyway, I think I'm getting sick or something... feel bloody rotten, but who cares?! I have a computer, and I think I'm going to spend a fair portion of the rest of the day playing with it and typing up some of all the fic I've been working on which I haven't been able to do on my computer in sooooo long. ^_^

(side note. Waaaaah, I have so many files to move over, it's going to take foreeeeeever. ;_;)

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yayness! cheap LCD? have you tried readjusting the dimensions? sometimes they're not set right when you get it.

is it the Inspiron 1420? studylink finally paid in my CRC (...which paid off my overdraft but w/e >.>;) and god i wants to spend it. did you buy yours on credit card? my limit is too low! *flaps tiredly*

I'm not really sure what it is, but they had this thing where they were like, 'add this feature and it will improve your picture by 10% or the next one up and it will improve by 30%' but I couldn't afford that so I'm not really sure what that means because it wasn't graphics-card related. I need to plug it in to my big monitor and see if it's prettier.

It's the 1525, which was slightly cheaper than the 1420 once I added all the things I wanted. There may have been a deal on as well I'm not sure. (they kept changing the deals each week.) Though, just from a screen-size perspective, I think the 1420 would have suited me better. The 15 inches is reeeeally large for me for a laptop. I dunno, I just like the idea of laptops being small and nifty, if I want a big image I will get a monitor, you know? That's probably just me though. YAY for CRC! About bloody time! (What do you mean your limit is too low, as in you can't afford it?) I paid using credit card but the money was from CRC and from increasing my overdraft. ;_; my bank account is very sad at the moment...

have you tried adjusting the dimensions though? because my Dell screen is really really good but it came set to the wrong dims...

that's what i'm looking at i think... i wonder if the bank would increase my overdraft facility....*has been living off overdraft*

i mean my credit card limit is $500 so i can't pay using it..

eta. oh fucking hell they are evil with the 'upgrade your...' wants. wants. wants. wants.

Edited 2008-02-28 02:41 (UTC)

Everything is fine there as far as I can tell. :/

Heh, yeah... I feel a bit sick over how huge my OD is.

Oh, I just transferred all the money onto the card and it was fine.

I KNOW! First you look at the computer and you're like, 'oh, that's affordable and okay' then you see all the glory it COULD have and you click on a few things and suddenly you're looking at paying a fuckload more than you could have imagined! Like the pretty exterior you don't even THINK of till they dangled it in front of your nose, and the bag you could live without, blah blah blah. ;_; Still, handy for me in that I got one a lot closer to what I need than a stock-computer. *hugs her Chii* (I nearly had a heart attack when they asked my what to name her, I was like, "But, we've only just MET!")

*sighs* well, if you're sure. ~~but have you tried changing them?~~

i've been really frugal. i have basically lived in poverty all hols. the only thing i spend money on is internet. when we run out of food for the week i just don't really eat so much. and then yesterday i went and spent $100 on food and dvds. Danielle says i should spend my money staying sane. i agree but oh it was so dumb and excessive. and even worse, it was that DVD i was all like 'way too indulgent, refuse to buy' and Asian dvds go out of print so fast right, so i ended up paying like $20 more than i would've had to if i'd bought it at the time, and i had to buy from HMV Japan coz it was the only vendor that had it in stock and that i know i can trust (ping, shipping costs). okay, imma stop ranting now.

fuck yeah. *mutters* and god, of course i WANT those extras so frickin' bad (i really really lusted after the XPS models, oh god), being the computer-addict that i am....

Chii ♥ gah *pinches cheeks*

um yeah, sorry. i'm having a bad day. how was the interview?

It really looks like they're fine to me. The resolution is right, I don't know how to change the actual screen size in a laptop, but screenshot (Sorry, it's kinda big, paint was distorting it hardcore and I can't find my photoshop disk.)

I hate it when that happens! It always seems to me that when I'm being really, really good with money I will randomly FREAK and buy something that even if I wasn't being frugal I probably wouldn't buy, and the next day I'm like, 'WTF was THAT!?' ;_; I'm not-so-secretly glad you bought food though. You need your bitamins! *hugs*

I took one look at the prices of the XPSes and was like, FLEE, NOW! So, thank goodness, I didn't even allow myself to really look at the specs. The things I _didn't_ get for mine are still haunting me, and I wasn't even particularly good about it!

well, she is pink with flowers on the outside. I reeeeeally wanted to call her Sakura, but it's just soooo cliche. I guess I could have it as her secret middle-name though!

*hugs away the nasty bad day* The interview was okay, but it was one of those annoying pre-interviews where all you really got to prove is that you're not crazy, and then the proper interview is later. So yeah, the HR person will contact me next week if I got through this stage. :/

How's the writing going?

oh, i think i get you now, i've gone over the specs with a fine tooth comb ^^; god dell are evil freakin' genius bastards. and that is a very pretty set up. is the widescreen weird to surf the net on?

yeah! yeah. i can scrimp and save so freakin' well but in the end i have to splurge on something and then i feel guilty as hell (i mean, i really should have bought clothes or something because ohgod..)

CLEVER. SO CLEVER. god, they've got $200 cash back on one of them this week and WANTS SO HARDCORE I CAN'T EVEN SAY. but i need money for first week so i really, i really really mustn't. it's just the processor i'm stuck on now. oh, i want 2.0ghz so bad (is it amazingly woah?)

you coulda gone with Sakuranbo! (sakura petals) :D but yeah, so cliche good choice A++

oh, fail. i hope you get it though. or, yknow, a job. *sends hopeful waves crashing over*

i'm, well, i'm too depressed to write right now.

yeah, it's that whole True Life thingie issue. They are truly evil, but OH MY GOSH it is so worth it. My computer is soooo lovely. It has really nice media interaction buttons too, which always used to fuck out on my previous computers, but work so well on this. ^_^ (just my latest cool-discovery). The widescreen is very weird. Fucks up a lot of stuff. Would prefer not to have it, really but, *shrugs*. Random note - do you have external speakers? Because if you don't, you'll need them, the sound is reeeeally tinny. Even my cheap $30 external speakers are significantly better.

Hahaha, yeah, that's like me with all the jewellery I bought last year. SO unnecessary. But preeeetty?

The processing issue is weird for me, partly because I've had such a massive increase in RAM that it's hard to tell where the speed is coming from, also my previous computer did have 2.0Gz, but it was a SHITE processor which didn't really work despite that speed. All I know know now is that I can do SOOOOO much all at the same time. Can you say, downloading like three things, taking stuff off disks, firefox, Word and Music all at the same time with only minor speed slows? Fuck yeah. Just such a difference for me. I haven't really been able to push her to full-power yet. @_@ So used to curtailing my activities. Oh, and she's REALLY quiet.Not that I want to encourage your poor-ness or anything, but you should at least know the truth? >_>;;

She is love!

Thanks, I sooooo need it. I am sooo in shit with money it's INSANE.

:/ fair enough. I'm trying to think of how to structure the next chapter of the Origi-fic, might get some done today, maybe...

gah. but how did you choose colors? that's the part that's really gonna stump me >__<;;; i like the look of white, but scratches would show. i like the sound of coffee but it's probably kinda gross.....the black one with stripes looks nice but i can't decide.

i read on CNET about the speakers sucking. i think i will pay to upgrade them. i have external speakers but i'm a sound quality whore >.>;

oh, thank you for saying that. what i'm most worried about is it being able to handle PS & the massive HD .avis that i so can't live without... and also S-Video (hooking it up to the TV), because my current overheats and basically gives up after about 1hr. which it also does if i leave it on more'n 10 hours straight... i'm a total power user D:

aw, bb *cuddles* hwaiting!

oh, that would be so cool! *hopes* i guess i should try and scrape together another chapter to send you too.

Colours was pretty hard. Have you looked at the pictures under the 'learn more' button for that section? I don't know about the microsatin ones, but the picture of mine, (spring blossom) was pretty accurate. Which model are you leaning towards? Coz the stripy one is only available for the 1525. I kept swinging back between them and eventually was like AH, just pick one!

Wouldn't just using decent external speakers be cheaper? I'm obsessed with sounds quality, too. Working as a sound-tech screws with your brain. I really need new external speakers that have at least some base, so I was planning on giving my current ones to my brother along with the rest of my old computer but then I turned on some music and I didn't even get through one song before I was yanking my speakers out of my old computer. XD

Wow, you really push your computer, huh, ^_^. What does your current comp have? I have no idea about overheating issues, being a laptop noob.

I wish there was an emoticon for pumping your fist in the air, o_oΐ or something.

yeah. My attacks of sickky-ness are making concentration hard, but you never know! Don't worry if you're feeling the listless-evils. Just enjoy the last few days of freedom. :)

Yeah I had a look but it just made me more conflicted! Maybe red would be nice? I'm leaning towards the 1525 yeah :3 the flowers do look real pretty.

Maybe but then you absolutely have to have them plugged in...which kinda detracts from the whole portability thing ^^ plus I buy cheap but good speakers and they break *current ones are almost gone*

mine has 1.4ghz. which does pretty well considering. oh and 40gb disk space LOL.

i wish there was too. wow, my capitalisation never ever lasts.

it has been pretty nice and relaxing today, really. i did laundry and synced my ipod. life is bearable :) *hugs ya*

I was definitely leaning towards red before the pink flowers ate me. I think red would age the best, style-wise. Hee! We'll have matching computers! They can talk and become friends!

This is very true. I don't listen to music as much as you so I guess it's a more immediate problem.

I've already filled up like, 30 gigs or something. I'm putting everything I've had hanging around on disks onto it, like music and anime and all the stuff you've sent me. Will you just go with the standard HD size? I did because I needed to cut costs and externals are just so stupidly cheap these days I can easily get one later, but other things would be harder to get after the fact.

The internet does not care for capitals, anyway. I sometimes feel like a FREAK. A FREEEEEAK! ...okay, I think all of this is starting to get to me. I need to clean my room or something non-computer related for a bit. ^_^

yay for bearable life. I guess? gah, I need to start checking my old computer for any hiding files then start the formatting. I just KNOW I'm going to loose something though. So scary!

First things first:

NEW COMMPY!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so overwhelmingly excited for you that it is as though I'm going to be able to lean over your shoulder and ogle at it as you show me its wonderfully spiffy spiffyness (I've been essay writing and my vocabulary is completely spent)

now that I've gotten that off my chest it is my duty as friend and past and future flat-mate to advise you to feel better. I'd like to prescribe a suitably chilled ginger beer and nice long lounge in front of Chii. lots of sleep and cuddles with the kitten.

I got busy all of a sudden doing home work, I sort of have an essay due over a week ago and my first big test tomorrow. I talked with our red headed comrade, she and Chris are doing really well and if I can schedule things as I'm hoping I may be able to see them both over spring break.

we should chat some time, not today, I'm sort of overwhelmed and my throat is soar, but some time.

Love you!!!!!!!!

Yaaaaaaaaay! I was thinking of you yesterday... what was it? Oh, yeah, I was sick and had to cook dinner and was like, 'ah, I wish my Foo was here and I could go scab dinner off her and just sit and cut veges while you did everything else. ^_^;;

The kitten is a bit sick again. :( I'm just so over it that I can barely care. I'm just like ....fucking hell. >:[

wow, crazy-study-time! I reminded myself this morning that there really is no time to be like, 'oh, the term just started, there's no hurry to do work' because we have these crazy 6-week terms. Going to do some of my readings later today hopefully. I'm so glad for Annie and Chris! It's SO awesome! You should TOTALLY go and see them! And send me lots of photos :D *tries not to miss everyone too much*

Just give me an email or whatever and I'll call you! I keep wanting to send you texts and then being like, ahrg, she's in america, not just just hiding down the street or abandoning me for her capoeira friends. :/

LOVE YOU TOO LIKE ONE MILLION BILLION!

Madness? No! This_is_A NEW COMPUTER!

Yaaaaaaaaaay! You finally got it! What does it look like, is it the red colour you were thinking of?

:) I was typing something on the old computer today, and was getting frustrated at making so many mistakes before realizing I had gotten used to typing on the laptop XD Fiiiiiiiics, you must type the stories!

>_< No getting sick! It seems everyone I know is! First my family, then my penpal in Sweden, then my grandma on the West Coast, now you! O_o

(XD I put all my old files on a flash drive before getting ride of the old, virus killed computer. Which was back in September. They're all still on there ^^''''')

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