New Laptop - Preliminary Report
Today, the new HP G60-630us Notebook PC showed up. I had to replace the old Dell laptop because the display was getting dim on one side and eventually failed in a ’soft’ way - that is the display would start out fairly bright, grow dim on the right side of the screen and eventually would go black. I can restore it by turning it off, letting it rest for a few minutes and reboot it. It’s good for a few minutes after each cycle then goes black again. Using the above method for small windows of data transfer, I was able to backup many files to the 500 gigabyte external drive, mostly photos but some data files as well. There are still more to go.
I chose HP rather than Dell this time because I used them at work before I retired last year. In the last five years of work, I had both desktop and laptop units. I liked them both.
The new unit comes with Windows 7 and has a 2.2GHz Intel Pentium processor, a 320GB hard drive, WiFi, a full-sized keyboard with numeric keypad and a 5-in-1 digital media card reader.
Now the fun begins. I have my work cut out for me the next few days customizing, installing my favorite apps and just getting used to the new stuff.
2 Responses to “New Laptop - Preliminary Report”
wolfwalker on 18 Jun 2010 at 1107 #
On your old laptop: what happens if you hook up an external monitor? If the external still works when the laptop screen dies, you can still see what you’re doing that way.
Minstrel on 18 Jun 2010 at 1114 #
Excellent idea! I was using a second monitor for extended desktop. I can change the settings to simply make it the external desktop.
Thanks for reminding me to do that.