In which Will introduces Galactica Actual in OD

I’m sure you all remember me writing about what happened on my birthday

Well, of course, that left me stuck. Daphne did put out a call for donations towards getting me aq new laptop and had some offers and even some money come through. But I found another way.

T-Mobile over here do a thing over here for broadband on the move. It’s a usb modem that you just plug into the computer and away you go. Well, one of the deals that they offer comes with a free laptop. I did my maths, figured out that I can just about afford it and signed up. The package was supposed to arrive today but it got here on Saturday.

And so, ladies and gentlepeople, it is my honour and indeed privilege to iontroduce you to Galactica Actual:

The spec:
3gig memory,
250gig hard drive,
15″ widescreen monitor,
4 usb ports,
built in webcam,
built in wifi card,
built in bluetooth.

And, dear FSM, is this thing ever fast. I know it’s much more powerful than my old machine but still. I noticed the difference when downloading Being Human from the BBC iPlayer (incidentally, if you do have the iPlayer, get the desktop version. Much better than the old manager style) and it downloaded in minutes rather than about an hour.

There are a few problems I have with it, the main one being that is runs Vista (seriously, how do you make a new OS that’s worse than the one it’s replacing?) but I’ll deal with it.

So the weekend has mainly been spent pimping it out. I know Daphne may not like that I’m not using a pic of her (sorry honey) but I could not resist this as my desktop pic:

So, next entry will probably be a general update entry and will be in video form.

Couple of other things before I go (I did add these as an it on my last entry, but as it was a few days later I’ll repeat them here).

I defy you not to smile while watching this:

And it’s coming up to my 1500th entry. So those of you who have been reading me for a while will know what that means. To everyone else, it means that I’m looking for your questions. Go to it.

Will

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