I’m on my second ThinkPad now. Last year I replaced my failing T42 with a T60. Both had/have ThinkLights, but I’ve never seen the point in them before…
Right now though, sitting in the garden at night, I finally see the point (I can see my keyboard!!!). Mind you, it’s irrelevant how well lit my laptop [...]
This afternoon I decided I needed a walk to clear my head (too much work, too little sleep) so, I found myself wanting to copy some new music* onto my iAudio X5L, something I haven’t done in a while. Like, since when I first bought and filled it a year ago. “No problem” thinks me, [...]
As anyone who’s spoken to me recently will probably have gathered, I have been having problems with my trusty ThinkPad T42. Problems in the form of random lockups. Not much fun… After weeks of frustration I finally determined that it was a hardware fault which (as I’m well out of warranty) would be rather expensive [...]
Woo yeah for me – I finished setting up my new PC this afternoon Loving the responsiveness that Core2Duo/2GB memory gives you – Eclipse positively flies on this thing!
Installation was a little more work than usual, but still pretty simple. Since the new motherboard uses the dreaded JMicron JMB361 SATA/PATA controller the 2006.1 [...]