As I anticipated, I am feeling increasingly comfortable with my new laptop. My fingers still occasionally hit the wrong keys and I am relying heavily on my trackpad while I learn a whole new set of keyboard commands. My remaining issues are with application compatibility. re I decided on a Linux laptop, I had done …
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Why I broke up with Apple
I have been an apple devotee since I got my very first Mac Classic loaner in college. The very first computer I bought for myself was a Mac LCII. In fact, I still have it, I just can’t bring myself to get rid of it. Like many of us, I assumed that I would get …
My New Laptop: An Experiment, Part II
Not unexpectedly, the transition to my new laptop hasn’t been particularly smooth. First the system froze installing the newest version of Ubuntu, which was released the same day my computer shipped. Then I tried to do the installation from a CD my husband burned for me. When that didn’t work, I gave up and called …
My new laptop, an experiment
I am sitting here being very fidgety as I wait for my new laptop to arrive. Actually, it has been in Portland since Friday, but UPS wouldn’t let me come pick it up until they had tried delivery once. So I have spent the weekend spinning my wheels in eager anticipation (which is why there …