Today, we received the used IBM ThinkPad we purchased on eBay. I'm pretty impressed! We decided it would be to our benefit to purchase a cheap, used, more or less disposable computer for us to organize our thoughts and photos on while away from internet access. The Children's Village has a computer in the staff room for us to use, and it's connected to the internet, but it will be nice to be able to process our captured thought processes and imagery in the privacy of our room(s) at whatever hour we please, as has been our nature since I guess the beginning of each of our relationships with personal computers.
It has only been a couple of hours, but I am very pleased with our purchase. It's a rather small machine with a 12" screen, a 40GB hard drive, and a hefty enough amount of RAM for me not to have had to wait for anything impatiently. We originally purchased another used laptop from eBay. It was alarmingly awful. Start-up took 15-20 minutes from pushing the power button to actually being able to do anything and the hard drive buzzed when we turned it on. That's usually a sign of bad heads. I don't know what that means, but it's what Google told me, and it's what I fingered when I wrote my disappointed and overly wordy email to Tad, the gentleman who sold it to me. I emailed him the moment I won the auction for this here ThinkPad and he promptly accepted my proposal for a return and full refund. Great upgrade for the $25 difference between the two machines. The display on this one is nifty-brilliant, too, which means sorting through our photographs will be quite dreamy, where the other's screen looked its age and was rather dull, like the people I recognize from high school when I'm dragged to a local bar (POW!).
Not very used to the little cursor button in the keypad, though. I think we'll be bringing a good old fashion mouse long with us.
In addition to our new/old laptop, Bill and I also recently acquired a 500GB portable hard drive. It's about the size of my hand and is USB powered. We're covered. The next thing we need to obtain is a universal converter/adapter for our electronics. Maybe a couple. There are a lot of little things left for us to take care of in our remaining three weeks here. We've been using Google Wave to organize our actions, purchases, etc. It works; it's better than scrap paper since one can't truly misplace the internet.
It has only been a couple of hours, but I am very pleased with our purchase. It's a rather small machine with a 12" screen, a 40GB hard drive, and a hefty enough amount of RAM for me not to have had to wait for anything impatiently. We originally purchased another used laptop from eBay. It was alarmingly awful. Start-up took 15-20 minutes from pushing the power button to actually being able to do anything and the hard drive buzzed when we turned it on. That's usually a sign of bad heads. I don't know what that means, but it's what Google told me, and it's what I fingered when I wrote my disappointed and overly wordy email to Tad, the gentleman who sold it to me. I emailed him the moment I won the auction for this here ThinkPad and he promptly accepted my proposal for a return and full refund. Great upgrade for the $25 difference between the two machines. The display on this one is nifty-brilliant, too, which means sorting through our photographs will be quite dreamy, where the other's screen looked its age and was rather dull, like the people I recognize from high school when I'm dragged to a local bar (POW!).
Not very used to the little cursor button in the keypad, though. I think we'll be bringing a good old fashion mouse long with us.
In addition to our new/old laptop, Bill and I also recently acquired a 500GB portable hard drive. It's about the size of my hand and is USB powered. We're covered. The next thing we need to obtain is a universal converter/adapter for our electronics. Maybe a couple. There are a lot of little things left for us to take care of in our remaining three weeks here. We've been using Google Wave to organize our actions, purchases, etc. It works; it's better than scrap paper since one can't truly misplace the internet.
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