There was a bit of a confusion last week, when the DHL guy didn’t have all the details — apparently the Sony guys were expecting the machine to come in the next day and when it didn’t, they called me to ask why the pickup had gone wrong. Well, I had already received the receipt from DHL by then and I called them to tell them so, but by that time they had already received the machine and it was scheduled for repair. That was Thursday last week.
I went to Germany for Cebit on Friday, and in the …
Just a short update: the DHL guy just left. He did bring a box and a plastic bag to package the machine, as I was promised by the support guy yesterday, but he claimed I should have all the information that goes on the various stickers for the package… well, I don’t. The Sony guy had told me that DHL would have all they need to handle things. Anyway, he took the package away, promised to deal with all the paper work later and return a receipt to me tomorrow (or so). I would have been hesitant …
My Vaio VGN-SZ4 died last week while I was at Basta in Germany. One minute it was working fine, just sitting there on the table with the large external display attached, the next it was just displaying weird colorful flashing things on both screens, and it hung of course. So I switched it off, and since then I’m unable to switch it back on. It just turns on the power and bluetooth leds, I hear the DVD drive initialize, and when it was still warm I could hear the fan running a little bit as well …
Still pondering that laptop thing — in response to yesterday’s post, someone pointed me to the Acer TravelMate 8204WLMi, which I had actually already seen in a review. I had not given it any further attention, partly because the review wasn’t completely positive, but now I find that this must have been about the only reviewer who found really interesting flaws in that laptop.
Turns out this is a really nice machine, with a lot more modern h …
I was looking around for a computer that would be good to install Vista on and get into some WinFX programming, specifically the WPF part of it. My current desktop system is pretty nice to work with, but I’ve also had a higher priority for large desktop real estate and so I never got into those really fast graphics cards that are needed to do Aero Glass.
My desktop system is no slouch, but it’s one of these systems that have been extended manually over years, and it really doesn’t work all tha …
I just came across a fantastic gimmick that I need to get: the USB vacuum cleaner! I found it for sale at getDigital.de, so that’s where the product link goes: getDigital.de - USB Vacuum Cleaner