The water got in around the power control bits. Hoping a few days under a hot lamp might coax it back… Not likely.
Tag: laptop
Drying
paperworking
starting the paperwork for the school council AGM coming up. lots of fun.
dude, I got a dell
My trusty old Mac Pro finally gave up the ghost, and IT replaced it with a Dell Latitude e6410 laptop.
I’m going to be spending some time getting familiar with Windows 7. The thing came with a 24″ LCD, and a docking station that had two DVI ports, so I slapped in a 20″ Cinema Display as well. Not sure how well a laptop will be able to drive 44″ of display, but I’ll find out soon…
I dropped Safari and iTunes onto it quickly, and set it up to sync with MobileMe, iDisk, DropBox, Evernote, etc… so my stuff was there pretty quickly.
empty inside
but not for long. I was just about to slap a shiny new 750GB drive into the laptop, tripling the room we have for stuff. It was getting a little cramped before, after filling the stock drive. The laptop also feels a wee bit faster, after jumping up to a 7200RPM drive. It benchmarks at about 50% faster for disk throughput. That ain’t bad…
revision
I spent the day staring at the screen, pruning stuff out of my research proposal and polishing it off. I wound up dropping a bunch of planned data collection. It’s going to be much more manageable now. It’s not quite done, but definitely closer.