Comments on: Catching up

By: lamingtons

lamingtons — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:18:20 +0000

By a strange coincidence it is the anniversary of the day my mother kicked me out of the womb.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:15:40 +0000

Complete coincidence. It was meant to be the same weekend as our dating anniversary, but since we had to move it we just moved it to the earliest possible not-June date.

By: pne

pne — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:43:30 +0000

Is it a coincidence that your wedding date is 06-07-08 in big-endian notation?

By: gally99

gally99 — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:26:17 +0000

Oh that’s cool, I was at the Shounen Knife concert too :)

By: spratt

spratt — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:17:34 +0000

Oooh, laptop. :D

By: netfrost

netfrost — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 06:29:00 +0000

Hey noticed the dish this morning on my way out.
Food channel is addictive, especially for someone like me with dreams of opening his own restaurant.

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 05:01:37 +0000

Yeah, I'm really happy with it. I remember Halfjack mentioning some reliability problems with them at his workplace, but for me that's Desktop Support's problem, and we haven't been seeing problems at Mitel (and this and the D800 are the laptop options there right now). The only thing I really wish they'd done differently is the AC adapter: it requires a three-prong plug, which for a laptop just seems weird to me. Battery life isn't outstanding compared to competing laptops, but I still get 3h off a charge without trying, and could probably get 4 if I paid attention to what I was doing. If I were buying on my own I'd probably look at Thinkpads first, then this guy.

By: trinnit

trinnit — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:54:14 +0000

Thanks for your experience. It seens like a great combo of lightweight and powerful.

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:52:12 +0000

It’s hot, but it’s not that hot — if I have my watch on it’ll get a bit too warm on my wrist, but it’s never been too hot to use. (Left side wrist rest, FWIW.) The hard drive does get plenty warm, so I think they’ve fixed the heat dissipation a bit. (50 C right now, worst I’ve seen was 70 C).

By: trinnit

trinnit — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:44:16 +0000

I’ve read the 600 has heat problems, that you’ll get intense (nearly too hot too touch) heat over the hard drive area on the right side of the wrists rest. Be interested to see if they’ve fixed that. Except for that problem, the 600 was a laptop I was strongly considering.