The Blog of G » Laptops http://blog.georgepratt.net It's an on again, off again, blog thing Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:05:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Hurrah, I’m posting from my “newsed” Laptop http://blog.georgepratt.net/2006/09/18/hurrah-im-posting-from-my-newsed-laptop/ http://blog.georgepratt.net/2006/09/18/hurrah-im-posting-from-my-newsed-laptop/#comments Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:00:48 +0000 George http://georgepratt.net/Blog/2006/09/18/hurrah-im-posting-from-my-newsed-laptop/ Woot! My Sweetie got back from her business trip on saturday, finally. God I missed her, not just because she is the light in an otherwise bleak existence but also because she was carrying my “newsed” laptop home with her from the US, where it had been delivered to a friend of ours (Thanks Harold) after winning the ebay auction.
I am now the proud owner of a Sony Vaio PCG-N505VE possibly the most perfect laptop ever assembled! It’s small, compact, light, retro enough to have cred, while recent enough to do most of what I want and stylish enough to give even the mightiest of Apple fanboy’s Powerbook a run for its money :) and all this despite being a Sony product.

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This isn’t my first post to be written on it, but it is the first to be published. The first post written should be available on friday as part of my new series of regular features, but more on that in another post.

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There were a couple of things that “the old girl” needed, so a new battery is on order (first one to make a wise crack about Sony laptop batteries gets a slap ;) ) until that’s delivered I’m tied to the wall socket, even though I did manage to pick up a wireless card for it, in of all places, Tesco. Boy was that a surprise a reasonable brand (Buffalo) for just a smidge under €40 while the local PC World’s most cost effective option was €70!

Now I could wax lyrical for days about the evil, profiteering of IT retailers but I never I’d see the day when a grocery chain would out do an IT retailer at their own game, tis a sad sad day for IT retailers everywhere…

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I’ve wanted one of these for years, there just the coolest laptops ever built.

Thank you e-bay and Ellybabes for finding it :D

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