I know thats an old, american ad slogan, but it always stuck in my mind since it was so awful,

Anyway, yes i have a Dell. A Dell Inspiron Mini 10v to be exact.
Its no Apple in terms of overall quality, but its pretty damn close. Windows XP is certainly showing its age though. Its very light, it weighs less than the rabbits! Its handy for light web browsing around the house. Of course i installed a better web browser than IE pretty damn quickly, in my case Safari, which runs fine even with the low specs (a Intel Atom running at 1.6ghz, 1GB RAM, some Intel integrated graphics)

Heres a pic of it with our iMac.

Why didn't anyone tell me Close Encounters of a Third Kind is out on Blu-ray tomorrow (in the UK).

*preorders from amazon (£13.98)* (although dad said it has to go away for Christmas now)

Kinda appropriate since within the first year of having a DVD player we got Close Encounters of a Third Kind on DVD.... now continuing that sorta tradition with the HD formats, hehe.

First time i get to compare all 3 versions of the film thanks to seamless branching too (which worked very well with Spider-Man 2 and the choice of theatrical or extended cut)



Okay as I'm writing this entry it seems my iBook's keyboard is f**ked up again, so I'm going to have to shut down and reseat the connecter again.... and if this keeps up i guess I'll be going back down the apple store.....

Well overall WWDC was alright.

The stuff about EA making games themselves on macs was a surprise, IDs new game engine looks AWESOME (cant wait for the next demoes at E3!) and im drooling over 10.5.

Safari 3 is pretty nice too, im using the public beta now. There are some slightly annoying things - the address bar autofill has changed, and defaults to the main site URL instead of any sub-urls.

So i keep going to my livejournal instead of my LJ friends page for example.

Oh and all my auto fill info has been FORGOTTEN. F**king annoying.

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Im thinking of going on holiday by myself this summer, if i can find somewhere to go at what is a relatively last minute time.

Im going to say something that might shock people - Microsoft are better than Adobe at one pretty damn big thing. Education discount versions of software. With MS Office i just got the box, disc, mini-manual, and a THREE computer license without having to do any silly sending in proof etc (they sell the Edu version only in stores that ask for ID or sell to Educational only)

Meanwhile i just got Macromedia Studio 8 today - box, discs, NO manual (not even a mini one), Special mini-education EULA and a form to fill in and send with proof to get a single computer license. Yep one, and Adobe do that online checking, so if i put on my laptop id have to spend time transfering the license across everytime i wanted to switch computers.

Oh well, i did save £700...... (or there abouts), guess i shouldn't moan about a few days wait for the license