Hi SW - ooooh, you sound like my type of gal....
My laptop is a thing of profound, silvery beauty. Here it is:-
http://www.tiptoptechnologies.co.uk/asp/...r=&PT_ID=1
Except that it's even better than that. The one they gave me has 1GB of RAM, a built-in webcam and Bluetooth-enabled.
I must investigate what to do with the webcam. Perhaps I could stream sweaty pictures of me, mouthing "I've just been for a run". Hmm. Maybe not.
The machine is fab, almost perfect. The one serious complaint is the battery life which is, frankly, very poor. About an hour. I'm hoping (rather desperately) that a few charges may extend this a bit, but unlikely. A lesser complaint is that the fan's a little noisy, giving off a high-pitched whine at regular intervals. I keep thinking Emlyn Hughes is on the radio.
Then a couple of small things: the CMOS battery is dead or dying, meaning that I have to reset the date each time I start it up (they were very apologetic and are sending me a new one). And the keyboard layout's a little unusual. Instead of the Ctrl key at the bottom left, it's one in from there, with an Fn key there instead (for activating certain function keys). I use the Ctrl key a lot - for saving docs and copying/pasting, so I keep missing it and hitting the Fn key instead. And the Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys are positioned vertically down the extreme right instead of where I'm used to them: along the top right. I use them a lot too, so I keep having to think where I'm putting me fingers. But I'll get used to that.
Scallies, ah yes. A good old-fashioned Merseyside word. I suppose it does mean pretty much the same, though I think scally may just have an almost affectionate dimension to it? A bit like "rascal" which I suppose may well be the origin of scally? I might be wrong. "Chav" is definitely a derogatory label.
Cheers
Andy
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Oh no!!!! We've hijacked SP's thread! He'll go mad when he comes home and finds out!! What are we gonna do? Oh no!!!!!
