Consumerism, redux

[ellarien]

Reader, I married him bought the laptop. The one with dragons on. So far, the setup experience is going a great deal more smoothly than it did with my first Vista machine, the Dell desktop that took exception to my third-party keyboard and USB hub. But then, it's a laptop, and laptops tend to be easier that way; also, it's conveniently close to the wireless router, which was the other problem I had with the desktop until I got the external antenna.

Its name is Dragonfly, to continue the insect theme of Butterfly and Beetle.

(Hah. The crossposter seems to be broken.)

Comments

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Yay for a laptop with dragons on :-) Good on you.

[ellarien]

Thank you!

The funny thing is, until Monday I thought I'd convinced myself I wanted a red one, having narrowed the technical aspects down to the point where I was comfortable buying on looks. And then I saw this one in the store, and fell for it.

I'm having fun with it so far.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Some things are just meant to be...

Congrats on the new laptop. Everything is better with dragons.

[ellarien]

Thanks! I used to be unconvinced by the computer-as-fashion-statement trend, but why shouldn't it be pretty as well as useful?

(And it's not just a pretty face. Yes, development has slowed down a bit, but this is still in some ways a more powerful machine than the four-year-old Serious Scientific Workstation under my desk at work.)