I LOVE THE NEW DISPLAY!!!

It's weird; now, suddenly, the display on the old machine looks yellow and dingy. It's the backlight, of course. I guess I just got used to it, but the new one is not only larger, it's also brighter and the backlight is more blue.

I'm using the old machine to post this, because Vista is chuckling to itself doing something, and I'll be damned if I know what. The only thing on the screen right now is a DOS box, which doesn't have anything in it. The disk drive is grinding, however, so presumably Vista knows what it's up to.

I always used to be leery of buing any kind of laptop through the mail, because it used to be that the standard for the manufacturers was "up to 4 stuck bits". So I would buy at a store, and insist on seeing the display before I'd buy.

That was ten years ago, though. I'm not too surprised to see that the state of the art in terms of LCD manufacturing quality control has improved. ASUS offers a "no bright bit" guarantee, and I don't see any dark bits either.

As I was typing this, the display changed again and now it's doing UI setup.

UPDATE: TA DAA! Posted with the new computer.

This sucker has a webcam built in at the top of the LCD bezel. I'm going to have to figure out how it works and grab a portrait so you can see how ugly I am.

But first, to start uninstalling things. Beginning with Norton Internet Security!

UPDATE: Which, of course, forces a system reboot because it was running.

I noticed the yellow tinge of the display on the old laptop when I first compared it to the monitor which was on the workstation. But after a year and a half, I guess I'd gotten used to it. Now, suddenly, the new display is clean and nicely blue-white, and it's just a massive improvement. I wonder if my anime DVDs will look better as a result?

UPDATE: Norton is gone. Now to let Microsoft tell me how much Vista has changed since Asus received the version it put on here.

And the first thing that has to be updated is Windows Update itself! Of course!

UPDATE: I remember a time when I thought that 10 megabit ethernet was blazingly fast. Now I'm finding that 100 megabit ethernet really crawls. If you think about it, that's only about 12 megabytes per second even if it saturates, which it never does. Since I've got maybe 50 gigabytes of data I want to transfer from the old laptop to the new one, it's gonna take a while. I think I'll start it just before I go to bed.

Meanwhile, I need to find out how to turn the touchpad off when I'm using a mouse. On the old laptop there was a button right there that did it, but the thing that looks like it should do that is just a light.

UPDATE: OK, that was straightforward enough. There's a configuration choice for the touchpad that says "Deactive that touchpad if there's a USB mouse." Exactly right!

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Computers at 06:22 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 535 words, total size 3 kb.