Days in Limbo, and the Continuation of the Computer Saga

[debka_notion]

Dancing was quieter than usual- just not a big turn-out this week. It felt very strange, and not entirely real, to be telling people that this was the last week I'd be there on a regular basis. Amusingly, I finally got the email of someone I've known for oh, at least 8 years now (admittedly, for most of that time we interacted sort of awkwardly). And the couple of folks who head down to NYC to dance around once a month have promised to get in touch with me when they're coming in to go dancing there.

With the encouragement of a few folks (my sister, my apartmentmate, someone at dancing who works in computers), I'm leaning towards just getting a new computer. So- I'm going to do some research, but input from people who have a clue about computers wouldn't hurt. I'm trying to check with the parents for their input, but this must be done by email because they're in Canada and their cellphones aren't so much working there. So hopefully parental input will happen soon- it's strangely unnerving not to have them accessible to run ideas by them.

Other that that, today's achievements thus far have been some packing, cleaning the bathroom, and some mending- but not enough packing or enough mending or errand-running.

Comments

[chinchillama.livejournal.com]

I understand that, though once I started using the mac laptop I never wanted to go back. But I suppose some of that is that it has a better mail program (thunderbird) and it uses Safari as a browser. They are pretty simple and you could always go to an Apple store and play for awhile, they don't work on commission so they won't pressure you or lie to get a sale.

Good luck!

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

That's a thought. I was just looking at the website, and they also look like they're a bit more expensive than the cheaper of the other recommendations I've been getting (esp. Toshiba)- and since I'm doing this mostly because it would save $ in the long run over actually fixing all that's wrong with my current computer, that may be a mark against them. But maybe I'll go check one out. I wonder if there's a store somewhere near here- there ought to be, I presume.

[chinchillama.livejournal.com]

There is one in Boston so you could head over, and there are a few in the Conn area but I don't know where. They are more expensive, but they save a lot of hassle (esp where virus management is concerned) and Adam claims they break less, it certainly functions way better than my pc laptop. you can also get an extension on the apple care for 3 years so they will fix or replace, which is nice. I dunno, so far I have only good things to say, and I've been using it for several months now as my only laptop (since my windows one kept dying, grrr)

In any event, I hope things are going well, when do you start school?

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

It's a thought- and one that practically everyone seems to be pushing. We'll see. No matter what, I'm likely to get an extended warranty- it saved me quite a bit with the nowsemi-deceased laptop, considering that over the course of 4 years I needed to replace the keyboard (about a month into owning hte thing), the hard drive and the motherboard, and now the screen...

Things are going pretty well. Orientation starts the 28th, and it's just starting to feel real to me. Scary stuff. So I'm trying to get myself ready- packing up, etc, and trying not to focus on it too much, so I don't freak out. So as usual I'm shifting a bunch of focus to zodiacmg's arrival back in Boston, and on dance camp...

[carnilius.livejournal.com]

Thunderbird is Mozilla, and exists on Windows and Linux as well. Safari doesn't exist on Windows, as far as I know, but I prefer Firefox which is Mozilla as well, and it exists on all platforms.

I'm a big fan of open source software.

I'm running gaim,firefox,filezilla,gimp,open office,emacs, et cetera... it's better and it's free. Eventually I'll move over to Linux...

[chinchillama.livejournal.com]

hehe, I have no idea who you are in real life, but it sounds like you could play nicely with my husband- who is a huge fan of open source and runs Linux on his desktop :)

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

He's a friend of mine from Israeli Folkdance, really from dance camp. He's not even geographically near me, let alone you... But should I someday get you folks in the same general vicinity through some fluke, I'll make sure to make introductions.