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Today one of Dell's repairmen visited me to replace the motherboard in my Inspiron 640m (still under the extended warranty). It took about 20 minutes, and now I have a working computer again. Wheeeeee! \O/
Because, honestly, the Fujitsu Siemens is a sub-standard machine that's really only useful for simple surfing, and I am getting sick of using it as my main machine. The keyboard is awful, the trackpad is shown as a mouse in Vista, and hence the checkbox for "tap-to-click", which I hate bitterly, cannot be unchecked, I have to reinstall the WLAN drivers under Linux every time I update the kernel, and 1GB RAM is woefully inadequate for Vista. The advantage is that I can experiment with it and not be afraid to break it, as long as I don't keep anything irreplaceable on it.
Because, honestly, the Fujitsu Siemens is a sub-standard machine that's really only useful for simple surfing, and I am getting sick of using it as my main machine. The keyboard is awful, the trackpad is shown as a mouse in Vista, and hence the checkbox for "tap-to-click", which I hate bitterly, cannot be unchecked, I have to reinstall the WLAN drivers under Linux every time I update the kernel, and 1GB RAM is woefully inadequate for Vista. The advantage is that I can experiment with it and not be afraid to break it, as long as I don't keep anything irreplaceable on it.