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trochee ([personal profile] trochee) wrote2008-05-02 07:09 pm

Tweets for Today


  • 10:50 my new supersweet laptop has shipped -- almost a week early. a relief; i'll have it with me on trip to Berlin. #

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(Anonymous) 2008-05-03 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
So what did you get?

[identity profile] lapartera.livejournal.com 2008-05-03 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, that was me. Didn't realize it had logged me out. Why does it DO that?

[identity profile] trochee.livejournal.com 2008-05-03 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a new Dell with lots of memory and CPU. the one with Windows was "discounted" while the ones that ship with Linux aren't. So I bought the same computer for $500 less with Windows, and I'll install Ubuntu the day it arrives. That particular game (paying me to accept a computer with Windows Vista) kinda annoys me.

[identity profile] lapartera.livejournal.com 2008-05-04 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
That is really disgusting. Less with Windows?!

[identity profile] trochee.livejournal.com 2008-05-04 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
technically, they were different models (the 1420 with windows and the 1420-n with Linux). But they varied by only a few small pieces of hardware (a different WLAN card, I think, was the only difference).

but since they're different models, they were discounting the 1420 but not the 1420 n. I wonder what Dell has to say about this.