Here are the stats:
AMD Phenom 22X4N97O
15.6 HD LED LCD
ATl Moblility Radeon tm HD 4250
4 GB DDR3 Memory
320 GB HDD
DVD-Super Multi DL drive
Acer Nplify tm 802.11b/g/n
6-cell Li-ion battery
Yesterday I was surprised with a new laptop. (I'll write about that tomorrow.) Tonight is the first time "it" and I are having a get-acquainted session for real. Yesterday "it" and I had a introductory session, twenty-five percent of which I think I forgot. Actually, the fact that I remember the other seventy-five percent is pretty remarkable, considering the session came in the throes of Thanksgiving Dinner preparations. Now considering the fact that this page just disappeared for about two minutes and then mysteriously reappeared after frantic and spastic clicking on my part, "it" and I are managing to co-exist.
Nothing is where is used to be - mostly. If this sudden "switcheroo" of laptops had taken place ten or more years ago, I would not have been able to withstand the sudden influx of new and different EVERYTHING. At least, now, I have been living with a computer long enough to know just enough to make me dangerous. I had a list of questions being compiled in my head, but the single most pressing question is why my Blogger site disappeared and got replaced with my Google page.
Some of the features of this laptop may be lost on me - such as the numeric keypad to the right of the keyboard. Family members who like numbers and all things number-related are all excited about the numeric keypad.
Perhaps the biggest change for me is that this new laptop has Windows 7 on it and Office 2010, instead of my former "tried and true" Windows XP and Office Who-knows-what. Little is where it used to be, including my hands, which now, because of the numeric keypad are now slightly left of center on the keyboard, although this is one adjustment that I seem to be rapidly overcoming. My Outlook 2010 looks and behaves totally differently in Windows 7 than in Windows XP. I keep exploring the "ribbon" across the top of the Outlook screen........at least I think that is called the ribbon. At any rate, that is what I am calling it.
Specifications, modifications, alterations, and ribbons.
This old dog IS learning new tricks.
Ancora imparo
