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Jun. 14th, 2007 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labellementeuseit arrived at the parent's place today. It's a toshiba. Mum read of "teeraa8c2d1.661G80DVD" blah de blah, so having filtered through mum-speak I'm pretty sure it's this one. 1.66Ghz, 1G memory, 80G hard drive. She mumbled some junk about the DVD player but presumably it will write DVDs which is a MAJOR plus.
Verdict: My current baby, Nita, is 1.69Ghz, 512, 40G. So basically everything's doubled except processor speed (that is processor speed, right, GHz?) I have no idea if I'm even going to notice the difference, to be honest. *shrug* Anyone got any experience with toshiba? Good stuff? Bad stuff? what am I going to call something to go with Kit-the-external and Dairine-the-pod? Nita 2.0 is always a plan, of course. Or - ooh - Ponch.
ETA: oh yeah, and the OS is Vista Business (or that's what my mama said anyway) and I'm thinking quite seriously about installing ubuntu. Maybe a... dual boot? is that what it's called when you can pick which one you want to open up with? Yeah, well anyway. What can ubuntu do and is it hard? I have a pal who runs it and I might have a flick at that.
Verdict: My current baby, Nita, is 1.69Ghz, 512, 40G. So basically everything's doubled except processor speed (that is processor speed, right, GHz?) I have no idea if I'm even going to notice the difference, to be honest. *shrug* Anyone got any experience with toshiba? Good stuff? Bad stuff? what am I going to call something to go with Kit-the-external and Dairine-the-pod? Nita 2.0 is always a plan, of course. Or - ooh - Ponch.
ETA: oh yeah, and the OS is Vista Business (or that's what my mama said anyway) and I'm thinking quite seriously about installing ubuntu. Maybe a... dual boot? is that what it's called when you can pick which one you want to open up with? Yeah, well anyway. What can ubuntu do and is it hard? I have a pal who runs it and I might have a flick at that.
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Date: 2007-06-15 12:39 am (UTC)BTW, OpenOffice is getting better and better at interoperability with the MS Office Suite. You may want to check out the Windows version and see how well it works for you. My only nitpick is that its interface (especially for presentations) is terrible. But there is KOffice for KDE and it's nicer but not as good at MS Office support.
By the way, if you download Kubuntu and burn it to disc, it boots as a live CD. So you can see if it works on your laptop and if you like the interface. Same with Ubuntu. It'll only install if you double click the Install icon. Is your laptop a widescreen model? Your display may be configured sub-optimally in that case. Even if it isn't, you may find your display resolution less than it ought to be. That's probably the biggest show stopper of all -- that display detection isn't very well done.
Give the Kubuntu live-CD a try :-)