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Nerdtastic ramble (probably best ignore)
Feb. 6th, 2011 12:58 pmWell my attempts at finding a new laptop have left me deeply unexcited. What is going on right now? Nobody - and I mean nobody - appears to have a sexy machine for sale. All of the upper-end Vaios are suddenly duller than Dull McDullard from Dullsville. And the Macbook Air may well be a thing of slender beauty but is simply too low-specced to justify its price bracket. Even the Macbook pro doesn't really offer enough memory or disk space for the price. Samsung have the odd "quite nice" model... but nothing that has really set my heart aflutter.
See - being the undercover geek that I am, ill-performing machines are liable to make me very sweary indeed - and I am quite picky. My strategy with laptops is always to buy the highest-specced, sexiest machine that I can afford at the time of purchase, with a view to not replacing her for a good 3 years. Whatever I buy will become my constant loving companion and must be as well considered as a partner. She has to let me have 30-odd applications running at once for weeks on end without giving me egg timers or spinning beach-balls - and she has to store many thousands of high-res images without complaining - and process whatever I'm doing at high speed. And on top of that she has to be gorgeous and glossy like Jessica Rabbit, with a nicely spaced keyboard and high-res screen, preferably somewhere around the 14" region.
The sad fact right now is that she doesn't seem to exist. Highly specced machines are all basically modelled on Velma, with huge screens and clonking great bodies encased in tedious grey chassis. Lower specced ones appear to be little more than glorified netbooks modelled on Miley Cyrus, with hot pink casings or hideous textured finishes, clearly aimed at teenage girls.
So I have admitted temporary defeat and G is going to take my beautiful, glossy, blood-red WIllow (back from the days when VAiOs were sexy) to a local repair shop and see if they can fix her up for another 6mths or so... in the hope that the tech bods will invent something better in the meantime. Which means that right now I am making do with my Kylie-esque little netbook until further notice. (Cute but very much lacking in punch - Pah!)
Alright - for those of you who are wondering what I have done with the lady who talks about kittens and knitting - normal service will be resumed imminently.
See - being the undercover geek that I am, ill-performing machines are liable to make me very sweary indeed - and I am quite picky. My strategy with laptops is always to buy the highest-specced, sexiest machine that I can afford at the time of purchase, with a view to not replacing her for a good 3 years. Whatever I buy will become my constant loving companion and must be as well considered as a partner. She has to let me have 30-odd applications running at once for weeks on end without giving me egg timers or spinning beach-balls - and she has to store many thousands of high-res images without complaining - and process whatever I'm doing at high speed. And on top of that she has to be gorgeous and glossy like Jessica Rabbit, with a nicely spaced keyboard and high-res screen, preferably somewhere around the 14" region.
The sad fact right now is that she doesn't seem to exist. Highly specced machines are all basically modelled on Velma, with huge screens and clonking great bodies encased in tedious grey chassis. Lower specced ones appear to be little more than glorified netbooks modelled on Miley Cyrus, with hot pink casings or hideous textured finishes, clearly aimed at teenage girls.
So I have admitted temporary defeat and G is going to take my beautiful, glossy, blood-red WIllow (back from the days when VAiOs were sexy) to a local repair shop and see if they can fix her up for another 6mths or so... in the hope that the tech bods will invent something better in the meantime. Which means that right now I am making do with my Kylie-esque little netbook until further notice. (Cute but very much lacking in punch - Pah!)
Alright - for those of you who are wondering what I have done with the lady who talks about kittens and knitting - normal service will be resumed imminently.
